Questions tagged [checkinstall]
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trying to understand LD_PRELOAD and SUID/SGID with checkinstall or porg
I want to use porg in my LFS distro. It's similar to checkinstall, it uses LD_PRELOAD.
1. If you read the README:
CheckInstall currently is unable to track any file system changes made
by statically linked programs
I think it refers to the…

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Checkinstall not found though already installed (Ubuntu)
I am trying to install Cuneiform following a usual procedure (downloading archive, unpacking, using make etc). One of the steps in building it is sudo checkinstall. When I run this in the terminal, I get the following error:
sudo: ckeckinstall:…

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How to uninstall a rpm that I checkinstalled?
I just built vim with checkinstall running:
[root@localhost vim]# checkinstall -R -y --fstrans=no
I see there is a rpm created there :
[root@localhost vim]# ls /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
checkinstall-20141012-1.x86_64.rpm …

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Installing checkinstall on fedora 20
I am a Linux noob and trying to build stuff from sources.
To keep it clean I'd like to use checkinstall but can't find it for Fedora 20
Is this possible ?
If so where is that ?
yum install checkinstall did not return any results

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checkinstall get positive result but after install deb package doesn't work on Mint 21
I have this problem: no matter what I try to install into the system using checkinstall, during installation process I get an error message that says "cp: cannot stat '//var/tmp/tmp.xxxxxxxxxx/newfiles.tmp': No such file or directory". The…
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checkinstall gets "stuck" upon listing files installed in home directory
I have used sudo checkinstall to install a package (after the usual ./configure). After successful installation it asks me
Some of the files created by the installation are inside the home directory: /home
You probably don't want them to be…

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Error while compiling - after checkinstall two ERRORs accoured
I would like to compile the newest version of tor (0.2.7.6) but I haven`t done compiling yet. I am stuck with this.
I've done:
./configure (went ok)
make (went ok)
sudo checkinstall (Error)
After checkinstall the following Errors…

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Regarding installing git source code via checkinstall
I'm running the OS Ubuntu 14.04 and I am going to install git via checkinstall.
Here is the step as per the git docs:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext \
libz-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install asciidoc xmlto…

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Getting following error while making .deb pacakage using checkinstall
I am using checkinstall to prepare debian package in my ubuntu machine. I did following procedure to prepare it
source_file_directory/ make
checkinstall -D make install
I got following at the end.
Installing with make...Installing with…

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