On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:52, HaywireMac wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do > > the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a > > checkinstall make install. This will build an rpm from the install > > process that you can now use to manage the box via rpm (add remove > > update etc.) > > I tried using checkinstall, and had a few probs. When it asks me for the > info as to name, description, etc. > > Please write a description for the package. > End your description with an empty line or EOF. > >> gpredict-0.4.0.mdk.i586.^H ***oops!*** > >> > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > > This package will be built according to these values: > > 1 - Summary: [ gpredict-0.4.0.mdk.i586 ] > 2 - Name: [ ] > 3 - Version: [ ] > 4 - Release: [ 1 ] > 5 - License: [ GPL ] > 6 - Group: [ Applications/System ] > 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] > 8 - Source location: [ gpredict-0.4.0 ] > 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] > 10 - Provides: [ ] > > Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 1 > Enter new summary: > >> gpredict > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > /usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1: rev: command not found > > This package will be built according to these values: > > 1 - Summary: [ gpredict ] > 2 - Name: [ ] > 3 - Version: [ ] > 4 - Release: [ 1 ] > 5 - License: [ GPL ] > 6 - Group: [ Applications/System ] > 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] > 8 - Source location: [ gpredict-0.4.0 ] > 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] > 10 - Provides: [ ] > > Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: > > ************************************** > **** RPM package creation selected *** > ************************************** > > Building RPM package... FAILED! > > *** Failed to build the package > > Do you want to see the log file? [y]: y > > Unfortunately, the log file was empty. > > Yes, I will read "man checkinstall"... ;-)
also if you try to backspace in gnome-terminal I've seen th ^H appear at times. just accept the mistake and continue on they give you a correction chance later. James
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