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1 FAQ
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3 1. I ran CheckInstall and everything seems to run fine, but when I check my
4 new package I only find the documentation files!
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7 CheckInstall can't trace (yet) the actions of three kind of binaries:
8 * SUID programs
9 * SGID programs
10 * Statically linked binaries
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12 You may now go to check the binaries you're using in the installation
13 process ;-).
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16 2. I built my Linux system from scratch (LFS, anyone?) and nothing gets
17 included in the packages I create with CheckInstall!
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20 Most likely you installed GNU make from source, which by default installs
21 the make binary with SUID and/or SGID permissions. A quick fix:
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23 chmod 0755 `which make`
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25 Which means to remove the SUID and SGID bits from the make binary.
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27 Please refer to the first question in this FAQ for the details.
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30 3. I use Slackware Linux 8.0 and the symbolic links created by my
31 installation do not get into the package!
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34 The ln binary shipped with Slackware 8.0 is statically linked. Replace it
35 with a dynamically linked one.
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37 The one shipped with Slackware 7.1 works just fine. You can download it
38 here: http://checkinstall.izto.org/ln.gz
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40 Please refer to the first question in this FAQ for the details.
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43 4. I used CheckInstall to install the latest XFree86 distribution, but the
44 drivers are being corrupted! If I install XFree86 without CheckInstall
45 everything runs fine. Is this some evil bug?
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48 It's not a bug. It's your driver's files being stripped by the automatic
49 ELF stripping process. Run checkinstall with the "--strip=no" command
50 line option.
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53 5. I use a RPM based distribution and CheckInstall says it built the rpm
54 package OK but reports an error when installing the .rpm file:
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56 Building RPM package...OK
57 Installing RPM package... FAILED!
58 And in the install.log file I find something like this:
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60 error: open of /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/package-1.0-1.i386.rpm failed no
61 such file or directory
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63 What's wrong?
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65 There's something wrong with your RPM installation. Check your system and
66 see if the "rpm-build" and "spec-helper" packages are installed. Also
67 verify that their versions match the version of the rpm binary installed
68 in your system.
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70 $Id: FAQ,v 1.6 2002/11/25 21:54:19 izto Exp $