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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