Re: Installing 3rd party packages, apt URIs

Marcin Pawlik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.debian
Message-ID <20040119110442.GA17318@mpmain>
On Mon, Jan 19 at 08:37, Pedro Jurado Maqueda wrote:
> Why not this with a graphical front-end?. I probe it and works fine.
> Other reason to use, it's still in development.
> 
> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

Checkinstall is a nice program but it cannot replace manual package
creation. It's impossible to build a good package using only the
information from installation procedure. Using checkinstall to install
packages from sources instead of .debs is of course also not something
we should recommend.

Regards,

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Marcin Pawlik
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