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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](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hirsute/en/man8/checkinstall.8.html): "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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