Re: [LAU] Building ffmpeg (was: Building avplay)

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:40:47 -0400, jonetsu wrote: Make love, not install http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/checkinstall Ubuntu Wikis often are a PITA, but I've got no time to edit them at the moment. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall This Wiki already starts with "aptitude", that shouldn't be used by Ubuntu Wikis/help pages. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/checkinstall.8.html ./configure make sudo checkisntall It's self-explaining. Even running configure and make might not be required, but I would run it anyway, even while checkinstall should work without sudo and an additional sudo dpkg. You not necessarily need to add dependencies. If I don't build DEBs the Debian/Ubuntu way with control and rules files and a changelog, but instead use checkinstall, I don't use all options, e.g. for Claws: 0 - Maintainer: [ Weremouse <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> ] 1 - Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout ] 2 - Name: [ claws-mail-git ] 3 - Version: [ 3.14.0-2-ge48b73 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL3 ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ claws ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ] I don't add anything to Requires, Conflicts and Replaces. Regards, Ralf