Hi, Peter Dahlberg a écrit : > I would use checkinstall (checkinstall make install). It creates a .deb and > installs it. Later you can remove it cleanly with dpkg.
Please don't give such pieces of advice without a little bit more explanations. Checkinstall is not a debian developper. It does not know much about the debian policies and even less about possible filepath/packages/... possible conflicts/dependencies. It is basically nothing more than a wrapper around make install so that you can "make [un]install" by just calling dpkg instead of calling make "by hand". I remember having helped a guy on the kdepim-users list for half a day one or two years ago. The guy had completely borked his system by repeatedly using checkinstall. Frankly, except in giving its users a false sense of security, I don't thinck checkinstall has any utility. A manual install in /usr/local or whichever safe place you want is a far better solution. HTH pp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
