WIth all the things have been installing of late, I have taken an interest in CheckInstall. Is there anyone on the list using it that has good things to say about it running on SuSE 7.3 or has general comments about it? Cheers, Brian
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:15:59PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
WIth all the things have been installing of late, I have taken an interest in CheckInstall. Is there anyone on the list using it that has good things to say about it running on SuSE 7.3 or has general comments about it?
Yes, I use checkinstall for all programs I compile from source. I've used it successfully on 7.3 and 8.0 for rpms (also on Red Hat for rpms and Slackware for tgzs). It closes a huge gap in the various package management systems which don't account for compiled source packages and maintains the integrity of your package system database. It's worked every time for me. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 19:46, Keith Winston wrote: - Yes, I use checkinstall for all programs I compile from source. I've - used it successfully on 7.3 and 8.0 for rpms (also on Red Hat for rpms - and Slackware for tgzs). - - It closes a huge gap in the various package management systems which - don't account for compiled source packages and maintains the integrity - of your package system database. It's worked every time for me. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 19:27, Andrei Verovski wrote: - I am using checkinstall. One of the most useful software I ever had. - - You may find my notes on - - http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/linux_tips_and_tricks.html#15 Thanks for the comments. Sounds like a must have, so I will try it out. BTW, it is included as part of the SuSE 7.3 Pro default install already on my system. Cheers, Brian
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:15 am, Brian Durant wrote:
WIth all the things have been installing of late, I have taken an interest in CheckInstall. Is there anyone on the list using it that has good things to say about it running on SuSE 7.3 or has general comments about it?
I got all enthusiastic over it but after iI installed a few programs with it Opera6 stopped working mysteriously, I really can't say that the two things are related but it seems suspicious. By the way it was pretty easy to set up and use. I noticed that if I ran yast package manager (yast1) to check the install of something I had compiled and run checkinstall on, yast wouldn't know about it, I just re-installed it w/ yast so that my 7.2 system would know what was there. -- dh I've been awake: 2 hours 34 minutes Suse Linux 7.2 professional kernel 2.4.17, xFree86 4.2.0, kde 2.2.2
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:29:21PM -0700, dh wrote:
By the way it was pretty easy to set up and use. I noticed that if I ran yast package manager (yast1) to check the install of something I had compiled and run checkinstall on, yast wouldn't know about it, I just re-installed it w/ yast so that my 7.2 system would know what was there.
YaST looks at more than the RPM database when displaying the list of packages. There is some mysterious configuration file somewhere or maybe just the ARCHIVES.gz for that version of SuSE. However, if you do "rpm -qa | grep <pkg>", you'll find your checkinstall packages in the RPM database and you can remove them cleanly with "rpm -e <pkg>". Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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