checkinstall "mkdir -p" fails to create directory

[nanotube]

Binary package hint: checkinstall

This is on ubuntu intrepid, 32bit.

When using checkinstall, it aborts with a failure to create directory, giving a message like the following:

#
test -z "/usr/local/share/pekwm/themes/default" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/pekwm/themes/default"
#
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/pekwm': No such file or directory

making the directory manually, with sudo, works just fine, and allows checkinstall to proceed past that point of failure (until it hits the next one). thus, a single checkinstall procedure requires several manual mkdir steps in order to let it finish.

let know if you need more information.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: checkinstall 1.6.1-7ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: checkinstall
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Stefan Carslöv (odur)]

I had the same issue with the checkinstall from Intrepids repository so I tried to install 1.6.1-8 from Jaunty, and that resolved it.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 78455.
Using "--fstrans=no" should fix this for you. (or change the default for TRANSLATE in /etc/checkinstallrc)