Re: building my own .debs

[Meir Kriheli <mksoft@netvision.net.il>]

On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     Hey people.
>
>     Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some
> source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a
> .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to
> the definite reference on how to do this?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Mike

I don't know if this can help, but you can try checkinstall.

The beta version (1.5.0beta2) can generate deb packages (as well as rpm). See 

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html

-- 
Meir Kriheli