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How to manage multiple package dependencies with checkinstall?

I have a package that I've been building using checkinstall for a while now, and I wanted to automate it (pass the values in via command line instead of typing the selection, pasting the value in, etc...) I am not sure if this is a checkinstall bug,…
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Why isn't mkdir -p working right in a script called by checkinstall?

I'm trying to compile Quarter and package it using checkinstall. If I do the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install, things go fine. $ wget http://ftp.coin3d.org/coin/src/all/Quarter-1.0.0.tar.gz $ tar xzf Quarter-1.0.0.tar.gz $ cd…
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checkinstall creates useless deb?

I have a trivially simple command-line program that literally consists of a python script and some helper shell scripts. I'd like to learn about packaging this program, though it is trivial. From what I gathered, I went the configure/make/install…
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Checkinstall fails to make a Ruby 1.9.2 package

Checkinstall fails to make a Ruby package with the following error. # checkinstall -D --install=no --pakdir=/home//Рабочий\ стол/ <...> installing binary commands: /usr/local/bin /home//Рабочий…
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checkinstall source code inside home directory

I am trying to create a deb file from my openCV (not relevant) source code. location for the source is ~/software/opencv/ Here are the commands I executed successfully. cd ~/software/opencv/ mkdir build cd build cmake .. make Then instead of sudo…
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Softether deb package installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04

I have created a new deb package from SoftEtherVPN source at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN using checkinstall -D make install The process successfully installs the software but the resultant deb package fails to install with this…
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Creating Python RPM

I have been reading about creating an RPM for Python 2.6.4. In this page: http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html it says you can create an RPM of the current Python using python setup.py bdist_rpm. The question's I have are: Do you have to…
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How can I sandbox filesystem activity, particularly writes?

Gentoo has a feature in portage, that prevents and logs writes outside of the build and packaging directories. Checkinstall is able to monitor writes, and package up all the generated files after completion. Autotools have the DESTDIR macro that…
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trying to overwrite `/var/backups/infodir.bak', which is also in package x

when compiling software I do always . ./configure && make && checkinstall -D make install to build the software. Now i run into the issue when using checkinstall that I get the error "trying to overwrite `/var/backups/infodir.bak', which is also…
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What is the simplest way to create source Debian package?

Suppose you have hello.c int main() { return 0; } and Makefile hello: hello.c gcc hello.c -o hello install: hello install -m 755 hello /usr/bin/ The quickest and easiest way to get binary package seems to be to use…
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How to Install python3.8 using checkinstall on debian 10?

I've installed debian 10 on server. PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" ID=debian arch: x86_64 It had python version 3.7.3 installed on it, so i tried to update it to version 3.8.5 and I want to use checkinstall.. I add backports repo in…
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CPython Install Failure

I am trying to build and install python 3.6.2 from source on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie. Here's how the build process has gone: $ ./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-ipv6 # everything seems fine $ make -s -j$(nproc) #…
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What it means "A breaks B and and is installed" while compiling and installing apt pkg in Ubuntu?

I have an apt package that is compiled for Ubuntu 13.04 and want to install it on Ubuntu 14.04 The package in question depends on libcogl12 which is not available on Ubuntu 14.04 (replaced by newer libcogl15 as i assume). In order to solve this…
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Autoconf, setcap and checkinstall

I have an autoconf project that contains a post-install hook like this: install-exec-hook: setcap cap_net_raw+ep $(bindir)/myexecutable I use checkinstall to package it up and install it on my local system, however after checkinstall is done,…
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How to check from python, if an arbitrary program is installed

I guess what I'm looking for is closer to this question. I'm running a python script (on a windows machine) that requires a program and a service to be installed. Since I have no control over which machines my script will be run on, I need to check…
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