Re: "make install" > debian package



On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Laurent CARON wrote:
Magnus Therning a écrit :
I know there's a tool that will let me run "make install" and then
creates a .deb (or .rpm, or .tgz, or ..) of it so that I can remove the
package cleanly later and take a nice .deb to install on other machines.
I know this exists, I just can't remember the name of the tool :-(
Anyone who knows what I'm talking about?
/M

checkinstall

Yes, that's what I meant. Unfortunately it's broken in Sid :-( I had to
revert to fcheck to get some sort of control on installing VMWare
Client.

/M

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