Re: [Gramps-users] Install Question

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

Alex

This worked thanks. Initially it didn't install the package as it was
overwriting files in the 2.2.7 gramps-help package. I removed this and
the installation went fine.

Tony

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:41 -0700, Alex Roitman wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> I have to say that I have never tried checkinstall, and
> it seems that it is not necessary because we do provide
> uninstall targets for everything we install (because we
> use autotools and those make nice makefiles).
> 
> In any case, read the installation details in the INSTALL file.
> Here's the brief description of what should work:
> 
> 1. Add these parameters to the autogen.sh:
>    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> 
> This will use /usr as the prefix (instead of the default
> /usr/local) and /etc as the system config dir.
> 
> 2. Run make
> 3. sudo make install
> 
> I suppose checkinstall will do the same.
> 
> That said, even if you used the default prefix of /usr/local,
> the /usr/bin/install should have created dirs as need, and it
> seems to work fine here with make install. So I wonder if
> this is a checkinstall fault.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Alex
> 
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:47 +1200, Tony Gordon wrote:
> > 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.