[newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 December 2004 21:12, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall works with 10.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:29:45 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has someone here been able to use successfully CheckInstall on Mandrake 10.1 Official? I have not been able of using it on Mandrake 10.1 Official. I have not tried it with 10.1 yet, but if you look on the

Re: [newbie] checkinstall/urpme/sylpheed

2003-07-05 Thread C T
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 04:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 10:39 am, C T wrote: I installed sylpheed using a tarball and checkinstall but now urpme won't remove it. Obviously I missed something (?) ...what do I need to do to remove the program? Curt urpme sylpheed

[newbie] checkinstall/urpme/sylpheed

2003-07-03 Thread C T
I installed sylpheed using a tarball and checkinstall but now urpme won't remove it. Obviously I missed something (?) ...what do I need to do to remove the program? Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] checkinstall/urpme/sylpheed

2003-07-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 10:39 am, C T wrote: I installed sylpheed using a tarball and checkinstall but now urpme won't remove it. Obviously I missed something (?) ...what do I need to do to remove the program? Curt urpme sylpheed should uninstall it. Assuming of course that you are in a root

[newbie] Checkinstall

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Watson
With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according to these values and lists 10 values, I press enter to

Re: [newbie] Checkinstall

2002-11-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:05:49 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously I am too dim to understand what is meant by the SOURCE directory, can anyone help me please? I turn on some lights then, (-: The directory it is looking for is /usr/src/RPM You need to install the

Re: [newbie] Checkinstall

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:05, Peter Watson wrote: With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-22 Thread David Johnson
I got it working. Turns out that the RPM I installed from ML CD's was causing the problem. I had to force removal of the broken RPM before building the software from source. Now it's working fine. Thanks for the help On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:29 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 May

[newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-20 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play with again. I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I run checkinstall, I get the following: [root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr/bin/checkinstall -R checkinstall 1.5.1,

[newbie] Checkinstall / RPM Files / Tar.bz files

2002-04-30 Thread John Richard Smith
This is all new to me so please bear with me. First , downloaded and installed , and RPM package manager reports:- libcheckinstall-1-5.5.1-3.i586.rpm checkinstall-1.5.1-3mdk.i586.rpm, so check install successfully installed. I think. Second, downloaded and extracted from tar balls:-

Re: [newbie] Checkinstall / RPM Files / Tar.bz files

2002-04-30 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 12:16, you wrote: On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: This is all new to me so please bear with me. First , downloaded and installed , and RPM package manager reports:- libcheckinstall-1-5.5.1-3.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] Checkinstall / RPM Files / Tar.bz files

2002-04-30 Thread Derek Jennings
Can you use checkinstall to build an RPM file from tar.gz files,so that it does not actually install the package as created at the time of RPM creation. Is that possible ? regards, John Not as far as I know, but checkinstall is nothing more than a bash script. You can always go in

[newbie] checkinstall

2002-03-28 Thread zaphod beeblebrox
howdy all... been trying to use checkinstall, and I get the following msg whenever I use it... [root@tardis iblm-0.03]# checkinstall checkinstall 1.5.1, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. Installing with make