9 Dec
2004
9 Dec
'04
7:41 p.m.
Looks like either checkinstall or pkgwrite will fit the bill for now. I wonder if anyone ever thought of adding a connection to either of these from Synaptic, Aptitude, or one of the GUI RPM installers (Karchiver?). It would be really sweet if I could just run "dpkg -i package.tar.gz" and it would build the .deb and install it. Maybe if it asks a few questions, like confirm the version, arch., or a few other details with the ability to skip and you'd be set. dpkg already gets called by apt-get and apt-get is called by the gui installers, etc.
Brian Kelsay