What has happened to checkinstall?

jimdaworm · 03-24-2006, 09:33 PM

I have just tried downloading checkinstall but could not find any links that worked. I noticed another post from January saying their site was down.

Has it been replaced or somthing?

nutronix · 03-24-2006, 09:48 PM

i thought that you could download it from slackware.com....extra...i just did

Speek · 03-24-2006, 10:49 PM

http://checkinstall.izto.org/download.php

jimdaworm · 03-24-2006, 11:00 PM

Thanks for the info... I just noticed somthing. I cant download the source or the slackware package. I can download the rpm... so I might do a rpm2tgz

gnashley · 03-25-2006, 01:28 AM

I've had best luck with an older version that was available with slack-9.1. Just download it from a Slackware mirror.

Speek · 03-25-2006, 07:12 AM

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I can download the rpm... so I might do a rpm2tgz

If you do that you should take a good look at the checkinstall config file. Because it can be configured for 3 different package systems (tgz, deb and rpm).

nutronix · 03-25-2006, 09:57 AM

http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...486-2#download

gnashley · 03-25-2006, 01:36 PM

rpm2tgz and checkinstall can both leave you with a package that removepkg will not remove. For removepkg to work, the package must have a valid slack-desc file of 11 lines.

jimdaworm · 03-25-2006, 02:35 PM

Thanks for the info and they easy way to check if a packages config files are good!

That package is not the latest one, the latest is 1.6.0