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Re: Magic with make install



* Eduardo Rocha Costa (eduardorochacosta@ieg.com.br) [021205 09:43]:
> Hi, everybody
> 
> I'm new on Debian, and I was wondering if a magic command exists in deb..
> like this:
> Let's suppose that I want to compile the program foo.
> before I run make install, I run this magic command, and it gather
> every information about the installation process.  After, when I do
> not need the foo program anymore, I would be able to remove this
> program with apt-get -remove foo
> 
> Is there such a command ??

I have heard of (but never used) checkinstall for creating custom debs
mostly automatically.  If you can manage digging your fingers in a
little bit, you can also read the New Maintainers' Guide and start
creating your own .debs manually.  It's really not hard.

good times,
Vineet

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