Andrewski Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 So I think the best way to go with installing from source is to make an RPM from it. That way, I can uninstall easily. Anyone want to back me up on this? So I downloaded checkinstall, but there are tons of cryptic options for it. Which are essential and how do I go about installing from source? And why isn't there a man page for it?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 I am not an expert and just used checkinstall myself yesterday. First, I did a search on this board :roll: and found a great help from cannonfodder... scroll down a bit and there are very clear and simple instructions for using checkinstall. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ht=checkinstall I followed those instructions, answered the questions it asked me and installed 2 dependencies and a 5mb executable and everything works! I also did a bit of reading from a google search on checkinstall but nothing beat cannonfodder's wisdom. :) Hint: you can find checkinstall docs in /usr/share/doc/checkinstall xxxx Most all software installs a doc to the /usr/share/doc directory so you can always check it there. Sadly, documentation in open source is not as complete as it could be, but there is some! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 I did a terrible deed on my LFS with checkinstall. I downloaded the pre-built tar.gz and just extracted that. Shameful!!! James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 Silly me, I should've gone to bed rather than messing with checkinstall. I didn't even think to search the forum. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGuy© Posted July 27, 2003 Report Share Posted July 27, 2003 Name : checkinstall Version : 1.5.3 Vendor : MandrakeSoft Release : 4mdk Date : 2003-07-25 11:33:05 Group : System/Configuration/Packaging Size : 125339 Summary : CheckInstall installations tracker Description : CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("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. You can get the source, checkinstall-1.5.3-4mdk.src.rpm or the binary, checkinstall-1.5.3-4mdk.i586.rpm http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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