[GRASS-user] installation problems

Vincent BAIN bain at toraval.fr
Sat Aug 18 08:23:44 EDT 2007


Well done Maciek, and thank you again !
Downgrading to 1.6.0 solves the problem.

Vincent



Le samedi 18 août 2007 à 13:31 +0200, Maciej Sieczka a écrit :
> Vincent BAIN wrote:
> > Hello, Sorry if the problem below is not exactly a grass problem,
> > but I hope this is the best place to find people who encountered
> > it...
> > 
> > I currently work on Ubuntu Feisty, so when I compile a program from 
> > sources I use the classical procedure : ./configure [options]
> 
> What GRASS version?
> 
> > make
> > sudo checkinstall
> 
> What checkinstall version? There are couple of bugs in the latest 1.6.1
> [1], going to be fixed in the next release soon. But 1.6.0 has been
> working fine for me with several software for months now, including
> GDAL, GRASS and QGIS (until 0.81; in case of 0.9 there are issues
> related to the new QGIS build system based on cmake, which I haven't
> figured out how to handle with checkinstall 1.6.0 yet).
> 
> In case you are using 1.6.1, I recommend downgrading to 1.6.0 available
> in Edgy repos, eg. here [2]. It should install fine on Feisty.
> 
> > Checkinstall usually works but sometimes does not... Particularly
> > with packages related to grass like gdal or Qgis.
> > 
> > Let's take the example of qgis-0.8.1 : checkinstall first says the
> > installation is successful, then create the debian package
> > successfully, then fails at installing the .deb.
> 
> Here's my typical command line for building GRASS 6.3 deb for instance:
> 
> sudo checkinstall -D --pkgname=grass63 --pkgversion=`date +%F`
> --install=no --strip=yes --stripso=yes
> --pakdir=$HOME/src/checkinstall_pakdir --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes
> --delspec=yes --backup=no
> 
> sudo dpkg -i $HOME/src/checkinstall_pakdir/grass63_2007-07-18-1_i386.deb
> 
> Does that work?
> 
> > The problem is it tries to overwrite files belonging to grass in the
> >  directory /usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/include/grass !
> >
> > So I tried to pass checkinstall with the option 
> > --exclude=/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/include/grass
> > 
> > but lately a similar problem occurs with gdal files, and even cmake
> > and ccmake files in the end...
> > 
> > Any idea ?
> 
> Smells like checkinstall 1.6.1 issues. Try 1.6.0.
> 
> Maciek
> 
> [1]http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php
> [2]http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/admin/checkinstall
> 




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