Ubuntuizing source

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Is there any package that will take a given source tarball,
> apply a set of rules to it to make it Ubuntu-compliant, and
> install it as an Ubuntu package?

You can use "checkinstall" (install it from Synaptic).
Then you compile something from source, do you ./configure, make, and
instead of "sudo make install", type "sudo checkinstall". This will make
a .deb package, and install it in the system. Then, you can use Synaptic
to manage this package, like all the other packages in the system.


HTH

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Vince