On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:02:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > git pull/make/make install > > There's a better way of building packages, but I'm short in time now, > so at least checkinstall usually does build a "primitive" package, > IOW I would run > > git pull > (perhaps ./configure) > make > checkinstall > > assumed it needs to be compiled by make. > Its even simpler, 'mr update; cd ~/git/foobar; sudo checkinstall -D', and just let checkinstall do all the building and install its *.deb that its just created. If checkinstall bails out you can easily see what the problem is, and hopefully resolve it. I'm all in favour of simplifying life! :) Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 Registered Linux user 334501
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