-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 11:29 AM +0000):
> Hi,
>
> i use yaprimaxgui & pxscan to get my Primax Direct 9600 scanner working.
> (sane doesn't provide a backend for this type just yet). Anyway, no problem,
> as i found the mentioned packages. Both packages are in tar.gz: i built them
> and they run. However the system doesn't know about them sinc they aren't
> .deb files. I thought building a deb from the sources would be a better way
> of handling this or is it overkill?
> If so, i found the Debian New Maintainers' Guide, is this what one uses to
> accomplish this?
Actually, there's an easier way:
apt-get checkinstall
checkinstall is run as root after you've done your ./configure and make,
and in place of the make install command. It creates a .deb file and
also installs it for you. Be sure to read the man page for it -- there's
a lot of options to help you customize the package.
--Matthew
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