Checkinstall Installation and Use guide

Checkinstall can track all files installed by "make install" or similar commands and create Slackware, RPM, or http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/for these files 33836.html ">debian installs the package and adds it to the installed package database so that the installation package can be easily uninstalled or published. Using Checkinstall instead of just running "sudo make install", because most of the files are placed in many parts of the file system, there is no easy way to remove them if something goes wrong. If in the future you try to install a package that contains the same files as the file you are compiling now, you will receive an error message and the software you have compiled may stop working.

Installation

sudo apt install checkinstall

Use

You will use sudo checkinstall instead of sudo make install.

The installed package can also be easily uninstalled by new synaptic or by using the following statements.

sudo dpkg-r packagename

Using Checkinstall via AUTO-APT

When you want to use Checkinstall to build a simple software package from the source code, you can use AUTO-APT. You need to install AUTO-APT!

instead：

/configure

You can use:

Auto-apt run./configure

If there is a dependency pack available, a dialog box pops up and lets you install them.

The following steps are the same:

Make
sudo checkinstall

Attachment:iconspage/iconwarning3.png Blog Rabais Feedback Some of the trouble:

He tested it with several swftools. Avi2swf failed to compile correctly, he had to uninstall all the Avifile dependencies and manually remove avi2swf from the compiler.