checkinstall won't work w/ my fedora core 1

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 25 January 2004 8:15 pm, someone claiming to be rmg57 at telus.net 
wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> > I've spent a little time trying to resolve my one problem issue with FC1,
> > checkinstall failing. I've installed checkinstall via RPM that was built
> > for fedora core 1, so it seems that this should work.  A post of the
> > problem to the checkinstall users list about a month ago resulted in no
> > help. Hopefully one of the superior minds on this list will be able to
> > provide me with a clue.
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>
> I dunno about having a superior mind, but I've been using checkinstall
> 1.6.0beta3 lately, don't know if it fixes your problem or not but I was
> getting quite a few failed builds with 1.5.3 as compared to 1.6.0beta3.
> FWIW, I run Slackware not Fedora.

Looks promising on first pass. checkinstall ran, but had problems 
building/finding certain files. Might be a 'make install' problem, though.
Thanks, 
Tim

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