Collins wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from >>source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. >> > > > And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically > updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages?
checkinstall generates RPMs/debs/tarballs (of your preference), which you then install like any other package of that type. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:25pm up 73 days, 23:13, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.22, 0.36 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
