Re: apt-get problems.
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:29:24 -0500
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
> rpms don't seem to make that all that easy. Apt-get doesn't seem to
> recognize that the final install of program x was made by the latest
> version of checkinstall, primarily because one has to prepare the
> so-called spec file's dependency list in way more detail than I have
> at my fingertips. And of course checkinstall doesn't call it that
> either, further confusing the issue.
Checkinstall let's you supply name and version information.
In most cases you should be able to supply a name and version that fits
the Debian scheme for the particular package. For cases where where this
may not work, equivs gives you some extra options.
Later, Seeker
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