unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:14:11PM +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:51:29 +0100, Antonio <debian at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> > Kent Frazier wrote:
> > 
> > >Instead of 'sudo make install', you may want to use 'sudo
> > >checkinstall' instead (you will have to apt-get checkinstall first).
> > >
> > >
> > It's better to use the debian/rules included in the mplayer sources if
> > you want to create a debian package. Instead of ./configure && make &&
> > make install, just do:
> > 
> >   fakeroot debian/rules binary
> 
> I've never heard of fakeroot. Is it secure? How does it install into
> directories that require root access without a password?

This only creates the package, so it doesn't need to access those
directories.  After the package is created, you still need to install 
it using sudo (or as root).

As almost always, the man page for fakeroot explains what is happening.