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checkinstall package

  1. Bug #78455
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 78455

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Achim Spangler (achim-spangler) wrote : This is a known problem of checkinstall with usable workaround

I got a usable workaround for the reported problem from the checkinstall email list:
<<start-cite from the email list: <email address hidden>
> Hello,
> I reported one month ago about a problem with the call of
> "checkinstall unsermake install" - the recommended way to install KDE
> programs from source.
>
> Am I the only one who suffers this problem?
> Does this command work in other Linux distributions than Kubuntu Edgy?

This seems to fail mostly everywere, and appears to be a bug in the
filesystrem translation code. If you pass --fstrans=no to checkinstall, it
should work.
/end-cite>>

I tried this with the checkinstall version that is installed by edgy - and it WORKS! ;-)

Maybe this workaround could be spread in the ubuntu community, or some developers might help the checkinstall developers to get the 2.0 version finished, which is said to be a big much more modular rewrite.

Thanks,
Achim