unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:02:40 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> 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).

OK, so it doesn't handle the make install like the above says it does
unless you are installing locally in your own directory for a single
user.

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

If I don't have it installed, I don't have the man page. 

> 
> 


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Regards,
Russ