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checkinstall ?

checkinstall ?

Posted Mar 31, 2005 17:19 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: checkinstall ? by cdmiller
Parent article: Autopackage 1.0

Because it doesn't produce rpm's that work with many distributions? I've tried to make a krita
release using checkinstall, but failed horribly. The resulting rpm was just plain unusable, even on
my own system.


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checkinstall ?

Posted Mar 31, 2005 23:25 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]

I have had no problems with checkinstall on debian, redhat, and mandrake, but recently the only thing I have packaged using it was an old asclock release. Use checkinstall if the unpackaged source is all that is available for the software you need until a package complete with dependency checking etc. for your distro appears.

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