CheckInstall(8)
NAME
checkinstall -- Track installation of local software, and produce
a binary manageable with your package management software.
SYNOPSIS
checkinstall [options] [install command]
DESCRIPTION
checkinstall is a program that monitors an installation procedure (such
as make install, install.sh ), and creates a standard package for your
distribution (currently deb, rpm and tgz packages are supported) that
you can install through your distribution's package management system
(dpkg, rpm or installpkg).
Note that for most useful actions, checkinstall must be run as root.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes ('-'). A summary of options is
included below.
All the options that toggle a switch default to activate the option.
To force activation or deactivation, call them with '=yes' or '=no'. As
an example, to disable stripping use --strip=no.
- -h --help
- Show summary of options.
- --version Show version information.
- --copyright
- Show Copyright information
- --type Choose packaging system. Can be one of 'slackware', 'debian'
- or 'rpm'.
- -D Create a Debian package.
- -R Create a RPM package.
- -S Create a Slackware Package.
- --install Toggle installation of the created package.
- --fstrans Enable/disable filesystem translation. Filesystem translation
- enabled causes the install to proceed in a temporary directory, thus not actually touching your system.
- -y --default
- Accept default answers to all questions.
- --pkgname Set the package name.
- --pkgversion
- Set package version.
- -A --arch --pkgarch
- Set package architecture.
- --pkgrelease
- Set the package release.
- --pkglicense
- Set package license.
- --pkggroup
- Set the package group.
- --pkgsource
- Set source location
- --pkgaltsource
- Set alternate source location
- --pakdir Where to save the new package.
- --maintainer
- Set the package maintainer. Be careful to correctly quote/escape the name, to prevent shell expansion
- --provides
- Features provided by this package (currently only on RPM and Deb).
- --requires
- Dependencies required by this package.
- --rpmflags
- Pass this flags to the rpm installer.
- --rpmi Use the -i flag when installing a rpm.
- --rpmu Use the -U flag when installing a rpm.
- --dpkgflags
- Pass this flags to the dpkg installer
- --spec Where the .spec file is located
- --nodoc Do not include documentation files.
- -d Set debug level. Must be one of 0, 1 and 2.
- -si Run an interactive install command
- --showinstall
- Toggle interactive install command.
- -ss Run an interactive Slackware installation script.
- --showslack
- Toggle interactive Slackware installation script.
- --autodoinst
- Toggle creation of a doinst.sh script.
- --strip Toggle stripping any ELF binaries found inside the package.
- --stripso Toggle stripping any ELF libraries (.so) found inside the
- package.
- --addso Search for any shared libs and add them to /etc/ld.so.conf
- --reset-uids
- Reset perms for all files/dirs to 755 and the owner/group for all dirs to root.root
- --gzman Compress any man pages found inside the package.
- --docdir Where to put documentation files.
- --umask Set the umask value.
- --exclude Exclude these files/directories from the package.
- --include Force the inclusion in the package of the files/dirs listed
- in the argument (a file).
- --inspect Inspect the package's file list
- --review-spec
- Review the spec file before creating a .rpm.
- --review-control
- Review the control file before creating a .deb.
- --newslack
- Use the new (8.1+) Slackware description format ("--newslack" implies "-S")
- --with-tar
- Manually set the path to the tar binary.
- --deldoc Toggle deletion of doc-pak upon termination.
- --deldesc Toggle deletion of description-pak upon termination.
- --delspec Toggle deletion of spec file upon termination.
- --bk Backup any overwritten files
- --backup Toggle backup
FILES
This program reads its configuration from /etc/checkinstallrc, which
can be used to override defaults. Command line arguments override settings in the configuration file.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, Version 2.
- On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.