--On Thursday, November 20, 2003 13:17:32 -0500 Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Micha Feigin wrote:I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable uninstalling it cleanly later. It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I tried the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any extra data except for the program) and I thought that this could be used to do that (I am just looking for unistall ability and to know whats installed, nothing else). To create this I need to install into some local directory instead of root so that I can create the tar file. Any idea how to do that (maybe chroot could do that but then I loose access to the local executables).
Check out the Debian New Maintainers' Guide <URI:http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/>.
Though that probably is "the right way", you may want to take "the easy way" and have a look at checkinstall.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/checkinstall.html and/or http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Good luck,
Emil--
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