Installing rpm package in Ubuntu 6.06

[Derek Broughton]

Al Gordon wrote:

> Just an fyi regarding step 5/4:  If you need to make your own deb
> packages from source, but are intimidated by the apparently brutally
> technical process of doing so, check out the checkinstall package.
> Using checkinstall, it's as simple to roll your own .deb as replacing
> the final "make install" command with "checkinstall". 

Cool!  I have made my own packages, but haven't tried checkinstall (the last
time I looked for it - perhaps even before I started with Ubuntu - I
couldn't find it in a standard repository).  I see it _is_ in universe.
-- 
derek