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Dear all, I try to install the latest R version using checkinstall (v. 1.6.2) on Ubuntu 11.10. After solving all the dependencies (installed using apt-get build-dep r-base) checkinstall fails to build and install R package with the following error (the same commands build and install R-2.13.2 on the same machine without any problem): wget http://cran.r-projec...

I installed checkinstall 1.6.2 on CentOS 5.4 VM (VMWare Server on WinXP). After getting the dependencies installed it compiled with no errors. But when I run it in its own source directory, I keep getting an error that I can't track down. The message is: install: cannot change ownership of '/usr/local/lib/insta...

I am reviewing some work that I did in June and forgot to take notes at the time. For some reason I have a nagging suspicion that for this job I used a package builder other than checkinstall but for the life of me I cannot recall the name. Now, the case may be that I actually did use checkinstall in which case not remembering the name of non-extant software is expected. On the other hand I would like to remove any doubts on the matter. If any of you have suggestions for viable alter...

I cannot seem to find a checkinstall rpm package for CentOS-6 or one for x86_64 more recent than CentOS4. When I try to build it locally from the most recent source I can find, c.2006, I get build errors having to do with size constants either missing or improperly defined. Does anyone have a source for an rpm of this package that r...

Hi list, I can install the default ppp-2.4.4-2, but when I try to install an rpm I built from Sangoma's ppp-2.4.4.5 (using checkinstall-1.6.1) I get this error: # rpm -ivh ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ppp < 2.4.3-3 conflicts with kernel-2.6.18-162.2.1.el5.i686 Isn't 2.4.4.5 > 2.4.3-3 ??? trying this: yum localinstall ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm --nogpgcheck gives some advice: You cou...

...sed git for some time to download an update wine sources. However, Ive notices a couple of things i dont understand quite much. My general procedure to download sources and compile is this: git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine-git cd ~/wine-git ./configure --prefix=/usr make sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --pkgversion=1.1.12 Here I've noticed that I have to manually specify the package version on checkinstall, or else, the installation fails (is there a way to avoid this??)... On the other hand, to update sources, I use: cd ~/wine-git git reset --hard origin git fetch git rebase...

How would one go about compiling Wine (1.1.0-253 git) with gcc 4.1.3? I'll post my results once I know how to go about that.

After installing wine from the source, I find out that the directory is consuming some significant amount of space, so I decided to remove it. But then I remembered that since I installed from source, I mighty need the source directory in the future, in case I decide to uninstall wine. After checking the documentation, I saw that was true. So I wonder: Can I remove the directory and in the future,

...tique" approach implicit in existing packaging efforts for RPMs (such as R2spec). I admire what Dirk did with cran2deb and if I had a research assistant, I'd imitate that approach to make automatic RPMS for all R packages and customize steps for packages that fail. Did you ever use "checkinstall"? It is a way to 'cheat' while making RPM packages. If you ordinarily do "configure" "make" "make install", checkinstall It is used in place of "make install". It can just create the binary package from the installed files, without requiring a...

I am trying to install Ruby-1.8.7p302 on a CentOS-5.5 server in preparation for a Rails-3 application deployment. I have downloaded the source from Rubyforge.org, unpacked it, and ran ./config and make. Everything built without error. I then ran checkinstall to create an rpm package. That too completed without error. However, when I try to install the resulting package using: yum localinstall /path/to/package --nogpgcheck I get this message: . . . Running Transaction Installing : ruby-1.8.7 1/1 Er...

Two quick and simple questions; I want to install the "WinPower" software for my new UPS. On their web site, they have a tar.gz file available for download. I know the reasons for staying with RPM, if at all possible. I''ve Googled and Yahood for ""WinPower"+RPM+Linux and get hits, but no obvious RPM. I tried "yum install winpower" and the response was

Howdy, I tend to try out many open source apps/packages - games, editors to media tools. I have a bad habit of downloading and extracting source in the /var/tmp directory and then doing configure-make-install process. I am not sure of best practice (good practices) to be followed when installing any software. For example how and where to keep the src. Any comments and/or resources would be really

Hey guys, I'm a new Ubuntu convert (installed through Wubi, and am blown away!) I'd love to get wine working so I play games etc, but I've got a lot of learning to do when it comes to installing and getting things working. So, I want to use the 1.0-rc1 version of wine, but CoD4 requires the 3dmark.diff patch. This is what I think I need to be doing: with the 3dmark.diff file

Hi Everyone. Asterisk is one of those applications that need to be built from cvs on a regular basis to keep up with the changes. I have always used package management tools like apt. How does everyone manage their Asterisk servers? Geoff

...se, and NUT should be able to build against those. There might be some discrepancies between the ./configure parameters (it's been a while since 2.0.4). http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nut/ Another way is to use the build directory from your successful build, and use the "checkinstall" package to reproduce the 'make install' process. It monitors what the install process writes, then creates a .deb file from those files. I don't recall exactly how it handles dependencies, but I think you can manually list them as part of the checkinstall process. https://wiki...

hello i need to install Wine version 1.1.13. i tried but i cant succeed. so my question is hoq can i install wine 1.1.13 cause i get all the time 1.1.12 again :S

...;> CentOS 6 when it is released? >> >> A new Ruby > > +1 I solved this problem on my 5.5 servers in the following manner: login: not_as_root_user . . . $ # Add rpmforge repos to yum per: $ # http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge $ sudo yum install checkinstall $ wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz $ # to get latest or most desired source change version as required $ tar -xzf ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz $ # expand source archives in /tmp $ cd ruby-1.8.7-p334 $ # change to source directory $ ./configure $ # configure makefile for this h...

Hi list, Does anybody have some notes/blog post/etc about building dovecot deb packages?

Hi: I've successfully installed Xapian under Ubuntu Linux using APT but when I tried it on an older Debian machine I got a broken package error: ------------------------------------------ # apt-get install libxapian8 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

...uced an executable R. I don't understand this. There must be something else that I need to do. What is it? Can I force the install to create the executable? How? Can't somebody *please* help me? I am going mad! cheers, Rolf Turner P.S. Elsewhere I was advised to trying using "checkinstall" to install the old R (i.e. 3.5.1) from source. This, I was told, would install the old R version in such a way that it would be compatible with the "sudo apt-get install" paradigm. After a *great* deal of travail I managed to get sudo checkinstall make install (command i...