Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

[Jos van Kan <vankan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G T Smith wrote:

> 
> Just installed checkinstall and in the absence of a man page... decided
> to use
> 
> checkinstall -h
> 
> to find out about usage .... the result was... well.. a bit weird :-o I
> think I have deciphered enough to use it, but I get the impression
> documentation needs a little work :-)
> 

You don't need any options listed in the -h list. Ordinarily you would
./configure [options]
make
make install
to install a tarball and to use checkinstall you just replace "make install"
with "checkinstall". That will build an rpm package that you either install with
rpm -Uvh /complete/path/to/RPM-PACKAGE
or with Yast. When you use Yast you have to add the
/complete/path/to/RPM-PACKAGE to the Yast sources. Alternatively you could click
in Konqueror on the file, because that fires up Yast, with the path already
added IIRC.

Regards,

Regards,
-- 
Jos van Kan                registered Linux user #152704
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