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Quick and Dirty DEB/RPM with Checkinstall | 2020-04-26T12:11:30-04:00 | false |
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To create a quick and dirty Debian or RPM package, check out checkinstall
! Be forewarned though that this isn't the recommended way of creating packages. This post on AskUbuntu gives good reasons for why. Though if it is between running a make install
or running this utility, I would consider running checkinstall
instead.
This program works by tracking all the files installed by a make install
equivalent. This makes it easy to remove later on.
To install on a debian based distribution,
sudo apt install checkinstall
Then you can go to the directory that you normally make install
and instead run the following to make a Debian package.
sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --nodoc
It will ask you to fill in various metadata such as name and author, and then it will create a package you can install!
To install,
sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
You can later remove it with apt.
sudo apt remove package_name
If the application does not use make install
, then you can add extra arguments to denote its equivalent
sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --nodoc ./customInstallScript
Arguments to checkinstall
Flag | Description |
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-D |
Create a Debian package |
-R |
Create a RPM package |
-S |
Create a Slackware package |
--install=no |
Don't install package |
--nodoc |
Do not include documentation filesq |