this taught me a bit about how:
https://gist.github.com/faleev/3435377
sudo checkinstall –pkgname=x264 –pkgversion=”3:$(./version.sh | \
awk -F'[” ]’ ‘/POINT/{print $4″+git”$5}’)” –backup=no –deldoc=yes \
–fstrans=no –default
Trying this for libvpx. When I try to uninstall it also wants to uninstall a bunch of programs I need.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
colord colord-sensor-argyll gphoto2 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good hplip kamera libgd-tools libgd3 libgphoto2-6 libgraphviz-dev libgvc6
libgvc6-plugins-gtk libmagick++-6.q16-dev libmagick++-dev libmagickcore-6.q16-dev libmagickwand-6.q16-dev libsane libvpx libvpx3
libzbar-dev printer-driver-postscript-hp sane-utils
checkinstall –pkgname=libvpx –pkgversion=”4.1.0″ –backup=no –deldoc=yes \
–fstrans=no –default
checkinstall –pkgname=libvpx3 –pkgversion=”4.1.0″ –backup=no –deldoc=yes \
–fstrans=no –default
apt-get install libmagick++-6.q16-dev libmagick++-dev libmagickcore-6.q16-dev
**** November 2018
needed a new one
just removed the old one and installed the latest for 16.04.5 and it gave me vp9