Re: tar.gz to debian packages

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net>]

-- benedict.verheyen@pandora.be <benedict.verheyen@pandora.be> wrote
(on Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 11:29 AM +0000):
> Hi,
> 
> i use yaprimaxgui & pxscan to get my Primax Direct 9600 scanner working. 
> (sane doesn't provide a backend for this type just yet). Anyway, no problem, 
> as i found the mentioned packages. Both packages are in tar.gz: i built them 
> and they run. However the system doesn't know about them sinc they aren't 
> .deb files. I thought building a deb from the sources would be a better way 
> of handling this or is it overkill?
> If so, i found the Debian New Maintainers' Guide, is this what one uses to 
> accomplish this?

Actually, there's an easier way:
    apt-get checkinstall
checkinstall is run as root after you've done your ./configure and make,
and in place of the make install command. It creates a .deb file and
also installs it for you. Be sure to read the man page for it -- there's
a lot of options to help you customize the package.

--Matthew