Errors while compiling mplayer

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 00:17 -0500, BMWolf wrote:
> Also i read where a user suggested making a .deb rather than make and
> make install, for easy removal if need be. Of course, I have to get
> this to work first, but anyone have thoughts on this. I'm fairly new
> to
> linux and debian but i'd like to know for reference.

You can do this with "checkinstall"

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

What you then do is use the usual 

./configure
make

But then run

sudo checkinstall

and you will get a .deb, installed and ready to go. You can remove it
anytime.

apt-cache policy checkinstall 

says it's in the universe repository (on Warty at least)

Peter