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I’ve used this a lot on Debian systems so that I could just use apt to remove the manually-compiled version: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall https:
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
I’ve used this a lot on Debian systems so that I could just use apt to remove the manually-compiled version: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall
These days I mostly use Nix which basically elominates this problem.
- nequo 3y agoI don’t know how I never heard about CheckInstall! This is great. Can Nix do what CheckInstall does, or do you need to manually build a Nix package for the program version that you want to install?
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoI mostly use nix with direnv so I never have to install anything globally and, between overrides and a minimal understanding of how to write a custom package, it’s surprisingly easy to get the tools you need for each project.