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Re: [LUG] Compresses Deb installer

 

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:16:07 +0000
Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Tom,

>Just wondering if there was a compressed package installer - I spend a 
>lot of time decompressing stuff and the just running "sudo dpkg -i
>*.deb" Any way of "sudo expandandinstall this.gz"

Try out checkinstall, which creates a .deb package, and installs it.  If
you later wish to remove it, your preferred package manager will handle
the job.

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