jlc Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 This is a very cool program. Have you ever install something from src (.tar.gz) decided you wanted to remove it and couldn't? Here comes checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ This is great, you simply run ./configure make checkinstall On my RH system I just did # /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall ( I hadn't put it in my path statement) It handles (make install) and the creates a .rpm (redhat) .tgz (slack) .deb (debian) so if you want to remove it later. all you have to do is # rpm -e <filenmae How cool is that? Here is the output of me running it on Sword. this is the end of it!! sword is installed. if this is your first time, you may need a basic global configuration file. one can be generated to /etc/sword.conf by typing: "make install_config" modules (Bibles, etc.), may then be unzipped to /usr/local/share/sword/ type "make register" to help us keep track of how many people are using sword. (you may consider exiting from 'root', first, to make this a little more personal) ======================== Installation succesful ========================== Copying files to the temporary directory...OK Striping ELF binaries and libraries...OK Compressing man pages...OK Building file list...OK Please choose the packaging method you want to use. Slackware [S], RPM [R] or Debian [D]? R Please write a description for the package. End your description with an empty line or EOF. >> Sword >> Sword EOF >> This package will be built according to these values: 1 - Summary: [ Sword ] 2 - Name: [ sword ] 3 - Version: [ 1.5.5.99 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ Applications/System ] 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] 8 - Source location: [ sword-1.5.5.99 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Provides: [ sword ] Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: ************************************** **** RPM package creation selected *** ************************************** Building RPM package...OK Installing RPM package...OK Erasing temporary files...OK Deleting doc-pak directory...OK Deleting temp dir...OK ********************************************************************** Done. The new package has been installed and saved to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/sword-1.5.5.99-1.i386.rpm You can remove it from your system anytime using: rpm -e sword-1.5.5.99-1 ********************************************************************** You can use it for basically anyone. .rpm (RH, MDK, SuSE......) .tgz (Slackware, I would imagine CL & Vector) .deb (Debian, Libranet, Xandros.....) Anyway, have fun just thought I would share the info.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 Yep, great app! I used it on LFS4.1 and Slackware9 so that I could remove the source tree and still be able to uninstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 I heard of it for Slack, but never looked into it. Once I went out to the site I saw I could also use it for .deb & .rpm's too. Pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 i use it when i cant find a package rpm or srpm, and also for my cvs snapshots. if ever you are going to use this for wine, make sure that your /var/tmp is around 800MB. that is why i have my /var/tmp symlinked to /tmp which is a 1GB partition. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 One step closer to EMERGE Kidding .. didn't know about that app. Really nice and will use it on my server. Thanks for sharing! MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Many posts in this thread have been deleted. Tips & Tricks is reserved for those two things. Debates belong in off-topic. PM me if you have any questions/complaints. This is a "catch-all" message. PMs where sent to those affected, but I may have missed some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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