dpkg error installing ncurses deb made with checkinstall

2015-01-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I have previously compiled ncurses 5.9 without a problem. The config command: ./configure --with-shared --enable-termcap --prefix=/usr/local make install also works on my Debian Wheezy. I want to use this same package on my server, so I decided to build a deb using checkinstall. Building

checkinstall: error creating directory

2012-10-13 Thread ML mail
Hello, I created a package for some software using the checkinstall command. When I try to install that package using "dpkg -i packagename.deb" it fails due to some missing directories in /etc. The exact output is the following: (Reading database ... 53664 files and directories

Re: Checkinstall problem with conflicting file

2010-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
sr/local/share/info/dir', which is also in > package ratpoison 1.4.6-GIT > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > /srv/git/vc-dwim/vc-dwim_1.3-1_i386.deb > > The conflicting file was installed with checkinstall also. > Checkinstall sho

Checkinstall problem with conflicting file

2010-12-06 Thread David Sastre
Hello, I'm finding this issue while trying to checkinstall a package: (Reading database ... 204242 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vc-dwim (from .../vc-dwim/vc-dwim_1.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /srv/git/vc-dwim/vc-dwim_1.3-1_i386.deb (--install): tryi

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 June 2007 at 09:31, Ross Boylan wrote: | On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: | > I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) | > with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a | > molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile | > with my install

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) > with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a > molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile > with my installed intel fortran and c. I can't help with your problem,

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I got the surprise of not finding "checkinstall" on > "etch", for both amd64 and i386, though I don't care > for the latter. > > Questions; > > (

checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
quot;make install" should provide the installations, I prefer to pass through "checkinstall", also because I am no expert and thus unsure to be able to keep track of all files installed. I got the surprise of not finding "checkinstall" on "etch", for both amd64 a

Re: checkinstall kqemu-1.3.0pre9

2006-11-11 Thread Mathias Brodala
1.3.0pre9_1.3.0pre9-1_i386.deb > /var/tmp/qIKmPmJTLcCoULPWGXGa/dpkginstall.log (END) > > What can I to do to install with checkinstall the kqemu? You have to remove everything in data/lib/modules/2.6.8/ except of the „misc“ directory and the kqemu.ko file. (Within the *.deb file.) To do this, you need

Re: checkinstall kqemu-1.3.0pre9

2006-11-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
> # ./configure && make && checkinstall > > but get the error message: > > Selecting previously deselected package kqemu-1.3.0pre9. > (Reading database ... 112958 files and directories currently > installed.) > Unpacking kqemu-1.3.0pre9 (from > .../kqemu-1.3.0p

checkinstall kqemu-1.3.0pre9

2006-11-11 Thread csanyipal
Hello! I have download the kqemu-1.3.0pre9: wget http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre9.tar.gz and unpuck it to the /tmp/ directory. Then i cd to that directory and try: # ./configure && make && checkinstall but get the error message: Selecting previously deselect

REF.: Problems with checkinstall

2006-07-27 Thread Everton Freire
Hi Guys, Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from sources, and going to install, should have the list of dependencies ? , or be, inside of package ".deb" that I building should have a file called "control" with all the dependencies.

Re: checkinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Simone Soldateschi wrote: > Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from > sources, and going to install, it's a library which can be used to > resolve dependencies? > > I've compiled sdl 1.2.10 from sources but obviously it's not

checkinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Simone Soldateschi
Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from sources, and going to install, it's a library which can be used to resolve dependencies?I've compiled sdl 1.2.10 from sources but obviously it's not seen by apt like a substitute of lbsdl-1.2.10Thanks in

Re: checkinstall (was qemu & vt's)

2005-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Also wouldn't it be preferable to use checkinstall: > >>sudo checkinstall -D make install > >>this will make a trackable debian package (so you can uninstall when > >>you change kernels etc.

Checkinstall problems

2003-01-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I have been using checkinstall which ha helped me in installing many packages by making debs out of tgz files. That is one very useful software. Of late, I noticed that it was taking inordinately long time to make a deb package even after the compilation was over. I then found out that it was

Bug#175141: checkinstall: man page contains unescaped dot at start of line

2003-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Package: checkinstall Version: 1.5.3-1 Severity: normal On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:26:01AM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > Fine; I'd still like to know what's on and around line 106 of that man > > page. >

checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
gt; > > > (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | > > groff -mandoc - | gv > > :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space > > after `sp') > > Fine; I'd still like to know what's on and around lin

checkinstall

2002-06-29 Thread Robert_L
Hi all. Anyone know how to have checkinstall NOT add the source files to the deb it creates? It seems to me that it used to prompt me, asking if I would like them included. Now it just goes ahead and builds with every damn source file included. Perhaps with the --exclude= switch? But I