Re: Local --> apt
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 07:27,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting
> > dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the
> > application being compiled.
>
> Look at checkinstall.
Yes, I got this one for this purpose.
Might work for a single program doing "sudo checkinstall make install". If I
have gotten that far, then obviously the dependencies have been met. Says
nothing as to what the package "provides".
I want to use it on something more involved like kde3.5 or qt3 (i.e., apt-get
just removed by old libqt-mt-dev and leaves me no way of getting it back.
Easy enough to compile my own and the "-dev" is implicit. Works, BUT apt does
not know it is there.
These packages or their components are made by [sudo] make install which does
the whole job from download to configure to make and install. Can
checkinstall handle this?
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