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'''[[TheRightWay|Doing It "The Right Way (tm)"!]]''' '''[[SevenMachines/DevHelp/Packaging/TheRightWay|Doing It "The Right Way (tm)"!]]'''

Doing It "The Right Way (tm)"!

Helpful things to know when making a proper debianized package

The "Quick Fix Way"

When you only need to use packaging to do some basic handling of installing/uninstalling source code on your local machine

Checkinstall - This handy program acts as a kind of wrapper around the source codes build system and creates a simple package that the packaging system can use to install and uninstall compiled source

For example, a typical gnu-type compilation process might look something like this

-configure build for this system $./configure

- compile the program $make

- install the program $make install

Checkinstall replaces the last step, it pretends to run 'make install' inside of a fake installation environment, sees what files go where, and then creates a package that does the same thing. Essentially this means that the package management system can handle installing and removing your compiled program instead of 'make install' / 'make uninstall'

SevenMachines/DevHelp/Packaging (last edited 2010-02-18 09:57:01 by 94-193-93-142)