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CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make" "make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.

CheckInstall installs a compiled program from the program's source directory using "make install" or any other command supplied on checkinstall's command line. checkinstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it using your distribution's standard package administration utilities.

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Debian checkinstall ignores install=no; how to have it build, but NOT autoinstall a package?

Ok, here is one thing that puzzles me... I'm trying to build a package from source, and then use checkinstall to generate a .deb package. Note that I want to just create the .deb package, but I do NOT want to install it. So, here's an example - I'm…
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Are there any CheckInstall side effects or should I use it every time?

I'm using Ubuntu at work and Slackware at home. Today at work I have downloaded some suspicious program from our company repository that was supposed to automate some repetitive tasks. I installed it with configure; make; make install. Now I want…
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how to tell checkinstall only create package file, but not install?

How can I tell checkinstall only create deb package file, but not install? with checkinstall --install=no, it fails at the end, for not having permission to do something. Does it really need root to create a deb file without installation? $…
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checkinstall --include option not working

I am successfully able to create a .deb package from source using checkinstall. However can someone help me with why I cannot add custom/additional files to the package created using the --include option with checkinstall. For instance I use…
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Installing custom RPM says "does not update installed package"

I've inherited some servers which have previously always had its software as custom compiled versions (apache, perl, mod_perl etc). I was thinking rather than compile every time, it may be better to put them into RPMs. I'm trying out some new ideas…
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Build Transmission 2.84 .deb package with checkinstall

I'm trying to compile and make by myself some .deb packages to keep my Raspbian more up to date than the repository. Now I want to update Transmission to v 2.84. Here's what I've done: Download the tarball from Transmission web site:…
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checkinstall freezes at "Copying files to the temporary directory..." when building vim8

I'm having a very strange problem with checkinstall when trying to build vim8. Here's what I did (although probably irrelevant): Cloned from vim8 git source Ran configure & make --enable-gui=auto. No problem. Then I ran sudo checkinstall, the…
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What is the backup file created by checkinstall for?

I reinstall emacs by compiling its source and then sudo checkinstall. I found checkinstall creates a file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44628516 Apr 22 19:19 emacs_24.5-1_amd64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56991208 Apr 22 19:19…
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All linux commands no working after try install python3.7

I have big, weird problem. I have server on Hetzner with Ubuntu 20. I tried install python3.7.2 with this instruction: wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz Where version can be specific, the above FTP location contains lots…
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How can I use checkinstall to replace multiple packages?

I'm building my own ffmpeg package using checkinstall, with all of the various ffmpeg libraries included. In the Ubuntu package repos these ffmpeg libraries are broken up into many separate packages. Is there any way to tell apt/dpkg that all of…
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Problems packing a .deb from autotools. (checkinstall, debhelper, ...)

I'm currently building a large project that contains sources written in few languages such as C,C++ & Python. I recently managed to (painfuly) handle autotools to make a proper install. Next step is to create .deb because our project is meant to run…
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Best way to use checkinstall

I was researching on how to properly uninstall Debian programs that I have compiled from source. One advice was to make use of checkinstall. But then I read on some sites that checkinstall doesn't take care of dependencies? So my question is, how do…
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Do I have to recompile if I want to change `--prefix`?

When installing emacs 24.5 by compiling its source, I run ./config --prefix=/usr and then make and then sudo checkinstall which creates a deb package and installs the binary files to /usr. Now I would like to change installation directory to be…
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Does checkinstall command add dependencies in the package?

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…
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checkinstall package conflicts with python

I'm trying to do a distribution upgrade from Debian 6 to 7 and am having some issues with some packages I created and installed with checkinstall. When doing the upgrade I get the following message: Preparing to replace python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7…
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