[PLUG] network "make install" ?

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 02:46:49 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:13:20PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated
>> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming.
>> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a
>> little easier.
>
> You might consider stow or checkinstall.  The latter will generate a
> package that duplicates what a "make install" does.  That way you can
> install, remove and version-track your nifty thingies.
>
> This assumes the machines are binary-compatible, mind.

checkinstall doesn't work for 64 bit machines (at least the last time
I tried it).



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