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How to manage multiple package dependencies with checkinstall?
I have a package that I've been building using checkinstall for a while now, and I wanted to automate it (pass the values in via command line instead of typing the selection, pasting the value in, etc....
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Why isn't mkdir -p working right in a script called by checkinstall?
I'm trying to compile Quarter and package it using checkinstall.
If I do the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install, things go fine.
$ wget http://ftp.coin3d.org/coin/src/...
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checkinstall creates useless deb?
I have a trivially simple command-line program that literally consists of a python script and some helper shell scripts. I'd like to learn about packaging this program, though it is trivial.
From ...
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Checkinstall fails to make a Ruby 1.9.2 package
Checkinstall fails to make a Ruby package with the following error.
# checkinstall -D --install=no --pakdir=/home/<username>/Рабочий\ стол/
<...>
installing binary commands: /usr/...
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checkinstall source code inside home directory
I am trying to create a deb file from my openCV (not relevant) source code. location for the source is ~/software/opencv/
Here are the commands I executed successfully.
cd ~/software/opencv/
mkdir ...
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Creating Python RPM
I have been reading about creating an RPM for Python 2.6.4. In this page: http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html it says you can create an RPM of the current Python using python setup.py ...
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Softether deb package installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04
I have created a new deb package from SoftEtherVPN source at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN using
checkinstall -D make install
The process successfully installs the software but the ...
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trying to overwrite `/var/backups/infodir.bak', which is also in package x
when compiling software I do always . ./configure && make && checkinstall -D make install to build the software.
Now i run into the issue when using checkinstall that I get the error
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How can I sandbox filesystem activity, particularly writes?
Gentoo has a feature in portage, that prevents and logs writes outside of the build and packaging directories.
Checkinstall is able to monitor writes, and package up all the generated files after ...
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What is the simplest way to create source Debian package?
Suppose you have hello.c
int main() { return 0; }
and Makefile
hello: hello.c
gcc hello.c -o hello
install: hello
install -m 755 hello /usr/bin/
The quickest and easiest way to ...
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How to Install python3.8 using checkinstall on debian 10?
I've installed debian 10 on server.
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
ID=debian
arch: x86_64
It had python version 3.7.3 installed on it, so i tried to update it to version 3.8.5 ...
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CPython Install Failure
I am trying to build and install python 3.6.2 from source on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie. Here's how the build process has gone:
$ ./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-ipv6 # ...
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What it means "A breaks B and and is installed" while compiling and installing apt pkg in Ubuntu?
I have an apt package that is compiled for Ubuntu 13.04 and want to install it on Ubuntu 14.04
The package in question depends on libcogl12 which is not available on Ubuntu 14.04 (replaced by newer ...
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Autoconf, setcap and checkinstall
I have an autoconf project that contains a post-install hook like this:
install-exec-hook:
setcap cap_net_raw+ep $(bindir)/myexecutable
I use checkinstall to package it up and install it on my ...
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trying to understand LD_PRELOAD and SUID/SGID with checkinstall or porg
I want to use porg in my LFS distro. It's similar to checkinstall, it uses LD_PRELOAD.
1. If you read the README:
CheckInstall currently is unable to track any file system changes made
by ...
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Checkinstall not found though already installed (Ubuntu)
I am trying to install Cuneiform following a usual procedure (downloading archive, unpacking, using make etc). One of the steps in building it is sudo checkinstall. When I run this in the terminal, I ...
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How to uninstall a rpm that I checkinstalled?
I just built vim with checkinstall running:
[root@localhost vim]# checkinstall -R -y --fstrans=no
I see there is a rpm created there :
[root@localhost vim]# ls /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
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Installing checkinstall on fedora 20
I am a Linux noob and trying to build stuff from sources.
To keep it clean I'd like to use checkinstall but can't find it for Fedora 20
Is this possible ?
If so where is that ?
yum install ...
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How to check from python, if an arbitrary program is installed
I guess what I'm looking for is closer to this question.
I'm running a python script (on a windows machine) that requires a program and a service to be installed. Since I have no control over which ...
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checkinstall gets "stuck" upon listing files installed in home directory
I have used sudo checkinstall to install a package (after the usual ./configure). After successful installation it asks me
Some of the files created by the installation are inside the home directory: ...
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Regarding installing git source code via checkinstall
I'm running the OS Ubuntu 14.04 and I am going to install git via checkinstall.
Here is the step as per the git docs:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext \
libz-dev ...
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Getting following error while making .deb pacakage using checkinstall
I am using checkinstall to prepare debian package in my ubuntu machine. I did following procedure to prepare it
source_file_directory/ make
checkinstall -D make install
I got following at the ...
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Error when using checkinstall to create Python 3.12 installer on Debian 11
I am using checkinstall 1.6.3 to create a .deb installer for Python 3.12 on Debian 11.
I used this description as an outline for doing it and had it working in the past for Python 3.11 on the same ...
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Error while compiling - after checkinstall two ERRORs accoured
I would like to compile the newest version of tor (0.2.7.6) but I haven`t done compiling yet. I am stuck with this.
I've done:
./configure (went ok)
make (went ok)
sudo checkinstall (Error)
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