[PLUG] network "make install" ?

Jason Barnett jason.barnett71 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 03:08:31 UTC 2010


I have used checkinstall on several occasions without issue on 64 bit
Kubuntu 9.10.  It also worked on 9.04 & 8.10, not sure before that..


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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