Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:33, Konstantinos Georgokitsos wrote:
Using checkinstall I get an error message (see below). It seems that checkinstall cannot execute mkdir correctly when building the rpm. subsequently it does not recognise that the directory exists and aborts with error. Anyone knows why this happens? I assumed this was one of the central things checkinstall should be able to do?
See if you can do make install on it's own. It looks like that's failing.
I see this problem often with the checkinstall in 9.2. You have to do a make install, then do checkinstall and "rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/<whatever.rpm>" to keep the rpm database honest. I haven't had a look to see what the differences are between the SuSE checkinstall and the original sources, but at 9.0 I installed the one I built from non-SuSE source and it always segfaulted. On Mandrake 10.1 I'm successfully using checkinstall-1.6.0 built from source. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====