Re: How to make my own .debs

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com>]

David posts:

> Is  there a  simple  way  for someone  to  make his  own  .deb from  a
> downloaded tarball?

There is  a way  out in  `checkinstall' and you  can install  the debian
package of that by doing an `apt-get install checkinstall'.

Unzip-untar the tarball  and go into the source  dir.  Run the configure
script to generate your system  specific Makefile.  Run make to link and
compile the source.   Once the binary gets generated  do a `checkinstall
-D  --pkgname=<the  name of  the  package> --pkgversion=<version>'.   It
creates a .deb package of that app.

Either as  root or invoking  fakeroot, install your own  hand-rolled deb
package.  Cool ain't it?

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ragOO