effect of checkinstall debs

[Patton Echols]

On 03/15/2010 08:36 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/14/2010 11:06 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
>   
>> I wanted to experiment with darktable 
>> (http://darktable.sourceforge.net/)  The only .deb on the website is for 
>> 64bit.  I was able to compile from the source after tracking down an 
>> number of -dev libraries.  I used checkinstall to create a deb and have 
>> a working installation.
>>     
>
> At least you got checkinstall to create a deb... I wasn't so lucky, see
> the "Compiling Question" thread.
>   

Odd, I found the deb in the directory where I unpackaged the source and 
ran checkinstall.

No idea what could have happened to yours.

> Not sure about any of the above, but you might want to have a look at:
> <https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/ppa>
> which has darktable.
> <http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmjdebruijn/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/d/darktable/>
> [darktable_0.4+git20100315-0pmjdebruijn1~karmic_i386.deb]
> installed for me (karmic 32bit).
>   

Yeah, I found Pascal's ppa linked on the Meet the Gimp website after 
getting the install done and posting here.

Thanks

--PE