On Saturday 10 November 2001 20:13, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Apologies for asking something that I should know, but if I have some > source that I've built from a tarball, and I'd like to package it up as a > .deb package and install it, I need to know how. Could someone direct me to > the definite reference on how to do this? > > Thanks, > > Mike
I don't know if this can help, but you can try checkinstall. The beta version (1.5.0beta2) can generate deb packages (as well as rpm). See http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html -- Meir Kriheli
