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I learned about checkinstall today. I installed mdp on Linux Lite installed on VirtualBox using checkinstall.

mdp depends on a package called libncursesw5-dev, which wasn't installed on my machine. But when I ran checkinstall, mdp was installed and worked flawlessly.

So, here's what I need to know from you, does checkinstall install the dependencies and pack it in the .deb, .rpm, etc. files?

NOTE: And yes, since I'm using Linux Lite on VirtualBox, I took a snapshot of the machine and used make instead of checkinstall, and make threw an error to install the dependencies first.

Wade Wayne
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checkinstall can't handle the dependencies to build the package automatically.

Dependencies need to be installed before executing checkinstall.

mdp depend on libncurses5-dev. libncurses5-dev should be installed on your system.

Only on raspbian mdp depend on libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev.

GAD3R
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