On 10/8/07, nan budh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > friends > is there any standard way of knowing what all softwares i have installed on > my ubuntu6.06 uptill now? what i mean is that the softwares which i > installed thru synaptic can be uninstalled thru it too. but there are some > which i compiled and installed directly. They donot show up on synaptic or > in Add/Remove softwares utility. Again I suspect that not all which i > installed thru apt-get show up on synaptic either. How should i keep track? > One thing that worries me is that when i upgrade my ubuntu version i shall > have to download all of them again. i have read somewhere there is a utility > which creates a CD of all the inntalled pkgs. > BTW what is the ideal directory to install a program to when i am doing it > myself.i am currenlty doing it to /opt. is it ok? > regards > nanbudh
If you are installing package from compile i.e. the usual ./configure, make install way then first install 'checkinstall' using synaptic. Then instead of 'make install' you can do 'checkinstall -D make install'. This will create a deb package of the program and install it. So it can be tracked through synpatic. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
