Resources for “Is Your $HOME a Money, er, Messy Pit?”

November 28th, 2005 by Marcel Gagné in

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CheckInstall: checkinstall.izto.org

Concentration (a game for kids): www.shiftygames.com/concentration/concentration.html

KConfigure: kconfigure.sourceforge.net

KInstaller: www.stierand-linuxit.de/kinstaller/index.html

Marcel's Web site (check out the wine page): www.marcelgagne.com

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Kconfigure source rpm build errors

On January 9th, 2006 eager says:

There were some problems building kconfigure from the source rpm.

1) Spec file in SRPM uses %setup -n %{name}-%{version} while the tar file doesn't have a version number. Fix is to remove "-%{version}".

2) Spec file cd's to $HOME just before building the file list. That should be "cd %{buildroot}

3) The spec file references %{distversion} which is probably not set in .rpmrc.

My guess is that the SRPM is not the one used to build the distribution RPM.

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Dead link?

On December 6th, 2005 ryddler (not verified) says:

Marcel's link for checkinstall didn't work for me, but google turned up this one: http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php

Keep up the great detective work locating all these timesavers for me ;)

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