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Please no! checkinstall is a huge cluge that shouldn't have been written in the first place.
Learn how to make Spec files for RPM, it'll pay off large. Things like supporting more then one version of a distribution can *only* be done in a spec file and in the long run it's easier to maintain a spec file.
BTW, I doubt that checkinstall can produce split up packages.
Any good tutorials that I can use to learn? Mainly written in easy to understand terms? I have been using checkinstall because I tried a few times to write a spec file and got more frustrated than productive. I will try again. All I'm trying to do is make a package for the gimp version that I compiled. Specifically a gimp-devel package. Any pointers in that direction? -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."