making packages

[Michel Clasquin]

david wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would like to make .deb packages out of source code but have
> absolutely no idea where to start.
> Can someone point me in the right direction please?

The quick and dirty way is to use checkinstall. You go through the usual
./configure and make routine, then instead of "make install" you use 
"checkinstall" and it makes a nice little deb file for you