can't find checkinstall packages on Debian 7 nor CentOS 6.5
 

Hi I'm trying to install the package checkinstall in both
Debian 7 wheezy and Centos 6.5 but neither of them find the package in their respective repositories

In Debian the command
#aptitude install checkinstall
Couldn't find any package whos name or description matched "checkinstall"
Couldn't find any package whos name or description matched "checkinstall"

And in Centos
#yum install checkinstall
No packages checkinstall available.

I'm doing this to learn how install software installed from sourcecode without messing without putting the system out of sync.

Do I need to add special repositories to download checkinstall?
Is there a newer program or command that is used instead of checkinstall?

Thanks for your answers

I can not tell for CentOS, but checkinstall is in the main repositories of Debian. That aptitude can't find it indicates that your repositories are not set up correctly.

It's available in stable main
post /etc/apt/sources.list

Thanks for your help with the Debian 7.
For some reasont the /etc/apt/sources.list just had the deb-cdrom and the deb for security package
I added the deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main line to the file
Then I did
aptitude update

And was able to install checkinstall on Debian.

On the other hand I'm still unable to install checkinstall package on CentOS 6.5

I installed the RPM forge repositories following the instructions of this page
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...ories/RPMForge

And as you can see in this link
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/
The checkinstall package appears listed in the repository or RPM but it doesn't show with a
yum list checkinstall
command.
I also installed the rpmfusion repositories with no success so far.

Well I downloaded the checkinstall for RHEL 5.x (.el5) manually from the RPMForge repos.
Installed the Development Tools for CentOS
$yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
And then manually isntalled the rpm package and now is working. So I suppose that this thread is solved. It is a shame that there is no checkisntall for CentOsS/RHEL 6.

# 5 .
There are actually packages available, from the "andnagy repo" ..
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/rep...RedHat_RHEL-6/