dpkg

[Frank McCormick]

Thanks to Vincent and Peter - simple solution for sticky problem.

Frank

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:26:30 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> >   A couple of messages on this list lately prompt this question:
> > 
> > Often I want software (such as Sylpheed, or mhwaveedit) in a version
> > that's not yet available from the regular repositories. I have been
> > dl'ing the source, and doing a make, make install but this seems to
> > be to be defeating the fine record keeping of the Debian system.
> > Whats the **recommended** way of doing this; using dpkg ???
> > I am still running Warty...as I don;t want to upgrade until the
> > release.
> 
> Just install "checkinstall" (from the Ubuntu repositories), then
> everytime you compile sometihng from source instead of issuing a "make
> install", run "checkinstall". It will integrate your new program
> perfectly into the system, and you can see it in Synaptic etc :o)
> 
> --
> Vince
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