On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:54:30PM -0500, Benjamin Racher wrote:
> binaries... but because apt-get lets one compile from source pretty
> easily... and if you get good at creating packages (something i'm
> learning at the moment), its easy to distribute them to the debian
For software that installs with the standard "make install," I
always use "checkinstall" instead, which tracks what make is
doing, and automagically creates a nice debian package(although
with no dependancy info) that can be easily uninstalled or
upgraded with standard apt commands. pretty slick.
-spencer
Received on Sat Aug 13 20:15:09 2005
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