Tuesday, March 15 2005 @ 06:30 PM EST Contributed by: icekiss2
A new version of deb-install has been released.
deb-install is a command line tool that can install or show information about packages/files in several different formats.
Whenever a program is installed using deb-install, it is converted into a .deb package beforehand, and thus removable via a simple "apt-get remove ". Currently supported are apt-get, .deb, .rpm, .dsc and .tar/.zip (source archives). Compression via gzip or bzip2 is handled automatically. If a needed tool is missing, deb-install asks whether it should install it. For more informations visit the project homepage.
changes in 0.6: Deb-install has learned to recover from error, making the prospect of a compile aborting after two hours because of a missing file much less frightening. A place to abort can be specified as command line option, making human intervention possible in many places. Deb-install has gained support for slackware, tab-completion has improved, and lots of internal code improvements will hopefully make bugs rarer. Oh, and old configuration files aren't compatible...
