strange problem with checkinstall and spamassassin

[Federico Voges]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:17:41 +0800, M.W. Chang wrote:

>
>I was trying to install Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60 from tarball.
>Perl Makefile.PL
>make
>checkinstall
>
>I ran into this error:
>
>Installing RPM package... FAILED!
>
>*** Failed to install the package
>
>Do you want to see the log file?  [y]:
>error: cannot open file
>/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-1.i386.
>rpm: No such file or directory
>
>why would there be a "redhat" word when I am using caldera OpenLinux system?
>

Nope, it's just checkinstall assuming you're using redhat. 

You have two options:
A.- Modify checkinstall to use the correct directory
B.- Symlink /usr/src/redhat to /usr/src/OpenLinux

Bye!

Federico Voges
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