Re: 3.6.1 can't use checkinstall

[marco atzeri]

On 2/27/2012 10:28 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
> > -----
> > PhD Student
> > University of Zürich
> > http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>
> Update,
>
> make install gives the same error. Thereofre I can't install
> octave-3.6.1 using the tar in the webapge.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any hints?


what are the permissions of
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/

?