-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roberto � wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:40:38AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> I didn't know about stow or installwatch. I always use checkinstall. >> >> It seems I learn more about Debian every day :) so many choices... >> > Ahhh, choices :-) > > The checkinstall package actually depends on installwatch and uses it as > the underlying mechanism. It is useful if you want to install from > source, but don't necessarily want to create some sort of package (.deb > or .rpm) from the install. > > The thing that I really like about stow is that I can have side-by-side > installs of different versions of the same package or the same package > compiled different ways (wxWdigets is a good example of this). > > Regards, > > -Roberto > On further investigation I found:
Package: checkinstall Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 536 Maintainer: Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.6.1-1 Replaces: installwatch Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), file, findutils (>= 4.2) Suggests: gettext Conflicts: installwatch Filename: pool/main/c/checkinstall/checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb Size: 110430 It seems that checkinstall is the replacement for installwatch, which is probably why I never heard of it before. - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/7UmiXBCVWpc5J4RAvnXAKCPK/yKfx7kJm/xiyOkZ1yzp2NSrACeOZkr eg8EfNisrewStfwHAukxlLE= =HLzm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
