[PLUG] Making RPMs (and DEBs?) from source tarballs

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 19 22:41:15 UTC 2007


On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> I am running a RHEL clone, and occasionally I download a source tarball
> and compile and install it.  I would prefer to manage the new files with
> RPM, so I would like to build an RPM, and install from that - if it is
> easy.  Most source packages use GNU automake, with the usual mantra
> "./configure, make, make install", so I expect there is an automagic tool
> to build RPMs from such source packages (also DEBs for our Ubuntu
> buddies).

Keith,

   When I ran Red Hat I used 'checkinstall' instead of 'make install.' It
made Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware packages with the user choosing which
one. My Slackware installations had the same tool, but specific to making
Slackware packages. Now I use the appropriate .SlackBuild script, but
checkinstall should still be available and working for your needs.

Rich

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