I have used checkinstall on several occasions without issue on 64 bit Kubuntu 9.10. It also worked on 9.04 & 8.10, not sure before that..
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Aaron Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:13:20PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated > >> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming. > >> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a > >> little easier. > > > > You might consider stow or checkinstall. The latter will generate a > > package that duplicates what a "make install" does. That way you can > > install, remove and version-track your nifty thingies. > > > > This assumes the machines are binary-compatible, mind. > > checkinstall doesn't work for 64 bit machines (at least the last time > I tried it). > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
