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I'm trying to install the arduino ide from a tar archive it happens to have an install.sh. I don't want to install by running it straight up because it won't show up on apt or synaptic.

(The package isn't available on a PPA)

Is there a way I could turn it into a .deb package?
I know checkinstall is used for things with a make but here that isn't the case. I was wondering if this is possible.

Shashwat
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    checkinstall doesn't need make. make install is what it typically runs, but you can use it with any command that copies files. And right from the first paragraph of the manpage: "checkinstall is a program that monitors an installation procedure (such as make install, install.sh)" – muru Mar 14 '21 at 18:46
  • @N0rbert, I also wanted to ask this in general and not just with context to arduino. – Shashwat Mar 16 '21 at 06:21
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    In general it would be closed as too broad. Because the are to many softwares and too many combinations of files inside them. In Debian/Ubuntu there is a most universal way - use packages from repositories and other sources. See https://askubuntu.com/q/307280/66509 for the best details. – N0rbert Mar 16 '21 at 06:38

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