* 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 -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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