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Re: "make install" > debian package



On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Laurent CARON wrote:
>Magnus Therning a écrit :
>>I know there's a tool that will let me run "make install" and then
>>creates a .deb (or .rpm, or .tgz, or ..) of it so that I can remove the
>>package cleanly later and take a nice .deb to install on other machines.
>>I know this exists, I just can't remember the name of the tool :-(
>>Anyone who knows what I'm talking about?
>>/M
>
>checkinstall

Yes, that's what I meant. Unfortunately it's broken in Sid :-( I had to
revert to fcheck to get some sort of control on installing VMWare
Client.

/M

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