dpkg

[Art Alexion]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 11:05 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Frank
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You might try installing "checkinstall" - usage is quite simple: you do the usual
>
> `./configure && make ` then follow with
>
>` sudo checkinstall`
>
>this makes a deb and installs it for you. The deb can be uninstalled
>with sudo dpkg -r <deb>.
>
>There are more elegant approved ways, but this works quite well for me,
>at least
>  
>
I used checkinstall successfully with Red Hat to build RPMs from source
and install.

Is it more reliable than alien (which I have [unsuccessfully] only tried
once)?

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