[Gramps-users] Install Question

[Tony G. <TB...@xt...>]

Apologies if this is not directly related to Gramps, but it is in
working with Gramps that the issue has arisen.

As the tar.gz file is the first one posted when there is a new release,
and having just learnt about checkinstall, I thought I would try it with
Gramps 2.2.8. I got the tar.gz file and extracted it, ran sudo apt-get
build-dep gramps. Ran autogen.sh and installed gnome-common as
requested. After again running autogen.sh and make I typed sudo
checkinstall but the process failed. I don't know if a log is kept of
this process but if it is I don't know where to find it.

When checkinstall is run I note that a lot of the screen information
that comes on lines that start with /usr/bin/install ends with "no such
file or directory" comments. These refer to the /usr/local/share folder
or subfolders. I have looked for some of these files and have found them
in the /usr/share folder or subfolders e.g. Gramps files in my existing
installation (2.2.7) are in the /usr/share/gramps folder or subfolder
not the /usr/local/share/gramps folder where the installation process
expects them to be.

I can wait for the deb files (which I note for 2.2.8 have now been
posted) but am interested to know why the checkinstall process may have
failed.

If anyone is prepared to enlighten me it would be appreciated. A reply
to me directly instead of the list would mean others do not have to read
about what may not be a Gramps issue.

I am running Ubuntu 6.10.

Thanks
Tony