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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org