Checkinstall is your friend

[Asmo Koskinen]

Luke Yelavich kirjoitti:
> As a packager for ubuntu, I would advise against using checkinstall, as it doesn't tend to honour a few things that need to be done when building debs.
>   

Me and my big mouth. Listen to him. It is truth that you are asking for 
troubles when you are installing something from outside of Ubuntu 
repositories for Ubuntu Studio/Ubuntu 7.10.

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.