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I'd like to find some equivalent to the Windows InCtrl utility so that I know exactly what changes were made when I run some software's "make install".
Do you know of an easy way to do this? FWIW, to install servers and desktops, I usually use CentOS, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.
It will log anything that the script changes. Just be careful when removing items because it also logs files that were modified but should not be removed.
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Show changes made by "make install"?
