dpkg

[Art Alexion]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 16:43 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
>  
>
>>Peter Garrett wrote:
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>>>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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>My impression is yes, checkinstall is more reliable. RPMs tend to be
>rather incomplete from a Debian-distro viewpoint, and there can always
>be conflicts in what dependencies they have and so on. Compiling, on the
>other hand, *demands* that you get the deps together, or the configure
>script just complains and refuses to complete. 
>
>`apt-get build-dep`  is very useful here: there are also ways to keep
>everything "in house" with debian/ubuntu source packages, which means
>you don't have to use checkinstall at all ( see the excellent howto at
>
>http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
>
>with particular attention to 
>
>http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
>
>or just do
>
>sudo apt-get install apt-howto
>
>Checkinstall is good when you know you've got all the -dev packages
>lined up ...  
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Peter
>
>
>  
>
Thank you very much, Peter

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