Re: Errors with checkinstall

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

2012/3/4 Néstor Uribe Patarroyo <address@hidden>:
>
> Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote
>>
>> I found that the problem is highly 10.10 related and is due to an
>> option in checkinstall about translations.
>> So
>> sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no
>>
>> solves the problem.
>>
>
> Thank you so much for that, I was so desperate that I had to create all the
> directories by myself to install Octave 3.4.3 from source on xubuntu 11.10.
> Where did you find this information, is a bug already filed? Is this a
> checkinstall bug or something related to ubuntu?
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I am happy to hear somebody found that useful. It was hard to find and
I cannot track back ,but here is a bug report and the solution I used.
You can change the default configuration file to make this permanent

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/599163


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