[ILUG] possibly simple debian question

[John Allman]

John P. Looney wrote:

> How do you turn a source tarball into a nice package ?
>
> I went looking around the web, and came across:
>    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/
>
> Which seems to assume you already have a data.tar.gz with all the bits
>you need in it. Is there a HOWTO with instructions as to how one makes one
>of those ?
>
>john
>  
>
I'm a checkinstall fan. It does that rather nicely and easily. 
./configure; make; checkinstall; is usually the procedure.

John