On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:56:09PM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a downloaded
tarball? I've read the New Maintainer's Guide but that doesn't seem to
be geared toward the Average Joe who wants to make one or two informal
.debs.
IBM
Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a downloaded
tarball? I've read the New Maintainer's Guide but that doesn't seem to
be geared toward the Average Joe who wants to make one or two informal
.debs.
I'm not interested in building tarballs that are apt-get'able. For
David Kanter wrote:
Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a downloaded
tarball? I've read the New Maintainer's Guide but that doesn't seem to
be geared toward the Average Joe who wants to make one or two informal
.debs.
It can be a little daunting. But it is not
David posts:
Is there a simple way for someone to make his own .deb from a
downloaded tarball?
There is a way out in `checkinstall' and you can install the debian
package of that by doing an `apt-get install checkinstall'.
Unzip-untar the tarball and go into the source dir.
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