Debian / Ubuntu: build custom package with checkinstall

Using checkinstall is easy to manage/remove custom packages.

apt-get -y install checkinstall

wget custom-package.tar.gz
tar xfvz custom-package.tar.gz
cd custom-package
./configure
make
checkinstall make install

# list package contents
dpkg -L custom-package

# remove package
dpkg -r custom-package