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CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source.

Porg logo Porg

Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.
  • CheckInstall Landing page
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    2020-09-10
  • Porg Landing page
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    2020-09-10

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CheckInstall and Porg)

CheckInstall

Porg

Front End Package Manager
45 45%
Front End Package Manager
55% 55
Package Manager
30 30%
Package Manager
70% 70
JavaScript Package Manager
51 51%
JavaScript Package Manager
49% 49
DevOps Tools
100 100%
DevOps Tools
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, CheckInstall should be more popular than Porg. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

CheckInstall mentions (3)

  • Are there tools to manage self compiled software?
    Checkinstall to create deb or rpm package out of source installs which you can easily remove with your package manager again. (But this only keeps track of the installed files, doesn't do any dependency tracking). Source: over 2 years ago
  • Completely uninstall/remove package compiled from source?
    There is also checkinstall which you run instead of make install. It creates a (simple) RPM package for you. You can remove that package with your package manager later on for easy uninstallation. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • How do you manage packages installed form tar files?
    Checkinstall is a rather popular way of dealing with self compiled packages. Source: about 3 years ago

Porg mentions (2)

  • sudo make install
    I've used a tool called porg. [0] Hadn't heard of checkinstall but it seems similar but with integration into the distro's package manager. [0] https://porg.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • How do I uninstall Tintin++?
    Mac uses some BSD derivative right? If you compiled it from source then "make uninstall" should work. Alternatively you can catch which files are installed by "make", via various other programs. For instance https://porg.sourceforge.net/ offers that, but it may be too advanced for this task. The "poor man's" approach is to just look which files were installed during make and then delete these files/directories... Source: over 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CheckInstall and Porg, you can also consider the following products

GNU Make - GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

Advanced Package Tool - Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.

CMake - CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

SCons - SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.

Pamac - Graphical Package Manager for Manjaro Linux (based on libalpm).

Yarn - Yarn is a package manager for your code.

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