dep, FHS, Slackware

[Net Llama!]

Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
> <david at pananix.com> wrote:
>>You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from
>>source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB.
>>
> 
> 
> And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically
> updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages?  

checkinstall generates RPMs/debs/tarballs (of your preference), which 
you then install like any other package of that type.


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