Re: 3.6.1 can't use checkinstall

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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/
>
> ?
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drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4.0K 2011-12-22 07:52 /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4.0K 2012-02-27 08:51 /usr/local/include

I am running 'sudo make install' and 'sudo checkinstall'

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