Installwatch is a program designed to make it easier to catalog and maintain software installed from source code.
Originally developed as a stand-alone project, Installwatch now exists primarily as a component of CheckInstall.
Installwatch was originally written by Pancrazio 'Ezio' de Mauro in 1998, but development was later taken over by Felipe Sánchez.
[1] Installwatch allows the user to monitor what files and directories are created during the installation of a software package in real-time.
Because of this, Installwatch can't monitor any changes made with the coreutils, rendering its logs incomplete.