[Gllug] Re: Installing Flash player on Debian

[Michael Moritz]

On Saturday 04 June 2005 00:35, Peter Joanes wrote:
>
> I would like distributions to work to avoid this. I don't want to run an
> installer on my system and hopefully I won't have to because it's easy
> enough to integrate most programs (even proprietary) with the native
> package management scheme.
> I want to be able to find out which package a file belongs to, i.e. in this
> case, like this:
> # equery b /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/flashplayer.xpt in
> *... ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25
>
I use checkinstall alot for these reasons. It creates a package (deb or rpm) 
from what happens during e.g. a make install.

mimo
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