Re: packaging a self compiled program in a .deb file
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Date: 11/20/03
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:38:19 +0100 To: michf@post.tau.ac.il
--On Thursday, November 20, 2003 13:17:32 -0500 Alexander Winston
<alexander.winston@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Micha Feigin wrote:
>> I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable
>> uninstalling it cleanly later.
>> It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I
>> tried the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any
>> extra data except for the program) and I thought that this could be
>> used to do that (I am just looking for unistall ability and to know
>> whats installed, nothing else).
>> To create this I need to install into some local directory instead of
>> root so that I can create the tar file.
>> Any idea how to do that (maybe chroot could do that but then I loose
>> access to the local executables).
>
> Check out the Debian New Maintainers' Guide
> <URI:http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/>.
Though that probably is "the right way", you may want to take "the easy
way" and have a look at checkinstall.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/checkinstall.html
and/or http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Good luck,
Emil
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