3.6.1 can't use checkinstall

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

Hi,

I downloaded the tar pointed from octave.org. It compiles and checks
gives zero erros. However when I run
sudo checkinstall
I get the error

test -z "/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1/octave" || /bin/mkdir -p
"/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1/octave"
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/octave-3.6.1':
No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-octincludeHEADERS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1/libcruft'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1/libcruft'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juanpi/Resources/3rdPartyCode/octave-3.6.1'
make: *** [install] Error 2

What does the error mean?

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/