CheckInstall(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   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.

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