Questions tagged [checkinstall]
CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make" "make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.
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`checkinstall` seems super dangerous (deletes /lib symlink...) - is there an alternative?
Heads up: This is not a question about how to recover the system (easily done), but about checkinstall. Feel free to skip the "Background" section. Background A little rant plus maybe a PSA.....
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Using checkinstall on Debian 12 fails for any package
On Debian 12 using checkinstall fails on every package I attempt to use it on. If the package has not been make installed prior to using checkinstall, then checkinstall fails as soon as the ...
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Installing a deb file build with checkinstall on Ubuntu into a docker container based on Debian
I have compiled a C++ software on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop, and used checkinstall to install it. This builds the corresponding .deb file and that's nice. But now I want to install that .deb file into a ...
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Using checkinstall in place of sudo cmake?
I've been trying to compile digikam and as part of that process needed to compile jasper. Jasper developers use cmake, I wanted to make a .deb package -- in fact was trying to learn how to make a ...
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Does using checkinstall instead of make install allow to easily remove dependencies?
I'm very new to Linux, so please excuse any normie errors/misconceptions. I want to learn how to build programs from source, but I'm having a hard time understanding how dependencies are managed when ...
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Does checkinstall command add dependencies in the package?
I learned about checkinstall today. I installed mdp on Linux Lite installed on VirtualBox using checkinstall. mdp depends on a package called libncursesw5-dev, which wasn't installed on my machine. ...
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ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). while installing "checkinstall" help the newbie out
I wanted to uninstall conky that I built from source on my arch linux and this thread suggested installing checkinstall. But I am new to all this and makepkg -sic resulted in the following error - ...
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All linux commands no working after try install python3.7
I have big, weird problem. I have server on Hetzner with Ubuntu 20. I tried install python3.7.2 with this instruction: wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz Where version can ...
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Checkinstall fails to package QEMU to a deb
I compiled QEMU for my Raspberry pi and want to package it to a deb so I don't need to compile it every time I reflash (it takes a few hours). but every time I run sudo checkinstall I get errors (...
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How friendly is checkinstall with CMake rather than autotools?
It's been recommended to me to use the checkinstall mechanism to install artifacts I build from source. But - the example involves GNU autotools (./configure) while I use CMake. How "friendly" is ...
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How can I use checkinstall to replace multiple packages?
I'm building my own ffmpeg package using checkinstall, with all of the various ffmpeg libraries included. In the Ubuntu package repos these ffmpeg libraries are broken up into many separate packages. ...
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checkinstall equivalent of `make install -C build`
What is the equivalent of: sudo make install -C build for checkinstall? Is it enough to: cd build sudo checkinstall ?
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Checking packages state in Synaptic
I have recently installed some packages which are necessary for building executables: python-central \ texlive-latex-base \ texlive-latex-extra \ texlive-latex-recommended \ ...
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checkinstall --include option not working
I am successfully able to create a .deb package from source using checkinstall. However can someone help me with why I cannot add custom/additional files to the package created using the --include ...
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Problems packing a .deb from autotools. (checkinstall, debhelper, ...)
I'm currently building a large project that contains sources written in few languages such as C,C++ & Python. I recently managed to (painfuly) handle autotools to make a proper install. Next step ...
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