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02-21-2014, 03:01 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: slack what ever
Posts: 1,076
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checkinstall on slackware 14.1
I really liked checkinstall is there a way to get it working on slack 14.1 ?
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02-21-2014, 03:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Oslo, Norway
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,557
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Use slacktrack instead. It is installed in Slackware by default
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-21-2014, 08:01 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2013
Location: Brazil
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,223
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ruario
Use slacktrack instead. It is installed in Slackware by default
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Slackware and all its secrets
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-22-2014, 01:10 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,351
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2 members found this post helpful.
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02-22-2014, 04:16 AM
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Amigo developer
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 4,928
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The 'trackinstall' utility included with src2pkg is a drop-in replacement for checkinstall -without the checkinstall bugs.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-22-2014, 05:25 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2007
Location: US
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 186
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I was going to mention gnashley's trackinstall, works pretty much the same as checkinstall. I used it a bunch of times.
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02-22-2014, 10:53 AM
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Amigo developer
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 4,928
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One real advantage of using src2pkg is that you have five different possible ways to isolate the package content -three of which do it without spamming your system. checkinstall uses the method which is equal to src2pkg's -REAL option, where 'make install' (or whatever) is run 'for real' while file/dir/link creation is being 'tracked' by libinstallwatch or libsentry in src2pkg's case.
However, checkinstall does not show the software as being installed by installpkg, so it really has installed content but not with the package manager. src2pkg's default -DESTDIR option, as well as -JAIL and -UNION options can allow you to divert all the real installation commands so that content never touches your running system. Installation of the package after creation using installpkg is optional.
src2pkg or trackinstall also provide lots of other benefits over checkinstall regarding package and content sanity. Try it today, and if you like it you can use it again tomorrow...
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-24-2014, 02:14 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: slack what ever
Posts: 1,076
Original Poster
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THANKS GUYS
I've got some reading to do
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