Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2007 10:55 AM
Or even<nobr> <wbr></nobr>./configure && make && checkinstall, which can make a package for your distro (I have used it on Debian and Ubuntu, but also believe it works on Slackware and RPM based systems too). Personally I think it might be cool if there was a Gdebi style wrapper around this, possibly combining alien as well, that way any source tarball or package can be opened by a nice little GUI program to install it in the system's native package format. I know more standardisation would be needed for this (which is why alien is not usually the best solution if source is available) but I think it would be nice.
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Re:I tried it... and it failed.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2007 10:55 AM#