Libguestfs - Aug 2009 - Can not build libguestfs from source code

Hi All,

I want to build libguestfs in my RHEL5.3 box which has already KVM
installed, what I am using are:

libguestfs-1.0.65.tar.gz

fakechroot-2.9-23.el5.x86_64.rpm
fakechroot-libs-2.9-23.el5.x86_64.rpm
fakeroot-1.11-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
febootstrap-2.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
squashfs-tools-3.0-4.x86_64.rpm

Then I ran "./configure" in libguestfs-1.0.65, everything was OK, but
when I ran "make":
...
+ read pkg
+ exec
+ febootstrap -i augeas-libs -i iputils -i kernel -i MAKEDEV -i
ntfsprogs -i scrub -i udev -i util-linux-ng -i bash -i binutils -i
coreutils -i dosfstools -i file -i grub -i lsof -i lvm2 -i
module-init-tools -i net-tools -i ntfs-3g -i procps -i strace -i
zerofree -u updates-released-f11 fedora-11 initramfs
febootstrap
                               | 3.8 kB     00:00
6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite.bz2
                  |  10 MB     03:21
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.
6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite.bz2
                  |  10 MB     02:36
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite.bz2:
[Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.
6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c 82%
[===============================       ]  74 kB/s | 8.6 MB     00:25
ETA
...

This step can not finish, I always got "Error performing checksum" and
"Trying other mirro.".
Any help will be appreciated, thanks!


Regards,
Qian

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:24:12PM +0800, Zhang Qian
wrote:
> I want to build libguestfs in my RHEL5.3 box which has already KVM
> installed, what I am using are:
[...]
> Any help will be appreciated, thanks!
Use the binary from EPEL:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse
  http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries

If you really want to build it from source, start with the source RPM
from EPEL.

Rich.

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +0800, Zhang Qian
wrote:
> Thanks Richard.
> 
> I ran the following command to install the repo details on my local system:
> rpm -Uvh
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
> 
> Then ran "yum install libguestfs" to install libguestfs, but
failed:
> No package libguestfs available.
> Nothing to do
> 
> It seems that libguestfs can not be gotten.
Try:

  yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install '*guestf*'

You will need RHEL 5.3 (or CentOS etc equivalent).

Rich.

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