Paco is a source code package organizer for Unix/Linux systems to record an installation with "make install" and give this record a "package" name.
This enables you to uninstall this package later.

Alternatively you may use checkinstall (not tested by myself).

Install PACO (validated for V2.0.9 on 20.09.2010)#

apt-get install pkg-config
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install gobjc++
  • Install (and exclude gtk+)
./configure --disable-gpaco
make
make install
  • Make a a package 'paco-2.0.7' from paco itself
make logme

Use#

See paco manpage or here

Examples during insallation

paco -lp ruby-1-9-1 'make install'
paco -lp sun-java6-jdk 'apt-get install sun-java6-jdk'
and uninstallation
 paco -r ruby-1-9-1