[PLUG] C programming

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 23:34:09 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Stuart Jansen wrote:
>
>> It needed to be said, thank you for saying it. Unless you're a developer
>> or a hobbyist looking to have fun, installing from source is probably not
>> a wise decision. While it may not be hard to do, the long term maintenance
>> cost is much higher and can probably only be justified for the most
>> critical parts of one's infrastructure.
>
> Stuart,
>
>   Consider using checkinstall. It replaces 'make install' and offers the
> options of creating a package in .rpm, .deb, or .tga format (Red Hat/Fedora,
> Debian, and Slackware formats). Then upgrades or removals use the package
> management tools.
>
> Rich

Note: checkinstall only works for 32bit systems.  Even the source
doesn't build correctly
for 64 bit systems.



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