From: Stewart M. <smm...@gm...> - 2011-03-02 04:32:35
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On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:30 -0500, Millen, Stewart wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Coles [mailto:jco...@ro...] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:30 PM > To: sd4...@li... > Subject: [I] Re: [SD4L-user] Questions about compiling Scramdisk from Source > > The problem in your compile is in creating the documentation > PDFs. > > Instructions that I have followed before require the > following Latex packages: > texlive > texlive-latex-recommended > texlive-latex-extra > > On my new system, Ubuntu 10.10, I tried simply entering the > command "pdflatex". > The response: > The program 'pdflatex' is currently not installed. You > can install it by typing: > sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base > > So there's another package name to try. > > It's annoying that building the documentation can break > compilation. > It would be better if the doc source was separate. The PDF > file is all most users want. > > It's possible that if you got the English and German PDFs > off the web site and put them > in /usr/src/linux/ScramDisk-2.1/docs, the script would skip > trying to make them. > > Jonathan Last night, before compiling, kernel 2.6.32-29 appeared in Update Manager. So I installed it. Then I: sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base Then I went into Synaptic and made sure that the other packages you referred to: texlive texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra were all installed. I then cleared out the folder /usr/src/linux and restarted the computer to activate kernel 2.6.32-29, and restarted the compilation process from scratch again. The good news, if it is, is that this time it (apparently) compiled successfully after the command "make", and after the command: make deb Created the package ScramDisk_2.1-0_2.6.32_i386.deb With no apparent error messages (though I could not save the output, as it was too large--I tried but it was incomplete). With high hopes, I then went to my user account and tried to open a container file. But I get the error: "Could not lock etc/mtab" So what gives? Stewart |