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?
Tried it with a konstruct installation of qt3. Did the make separately and
then ran checkinstall with make install.
Segfaulted every other line so killed it.
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