Monthly Archives: October 2006

checkinstall – build .deb’s from .tar.gz’s

21-Oct-2006 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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sudo aptitude install checkinstall
wget foo.tgz
tar zxvf foo.tgz
cd foo
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
sudo checkinstall make install

using kickstart to automate Redhat/Fedora setups

21-Oct-2006 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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(tested on Fedora Core 3)

  • copy all of DVD files to a directory, and export via NFS (more features for setups than ftp or http). For example:
 $ cat /etc/exports
 /var/fc3 *(ro,sync)

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