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, ...

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/ mkdi...

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/s...

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 ...

Checkinstall fails to make a Ruby package with the following error. # checkinstall -D --install=no --pakdir=/home/<username>/Рабочий\ стол/ <...> installing binary commands: /usr/lo...

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 b...