Christian Long Tech notes and tidbits

Install CheckInstall

A program that takes non-packaged software (such as pylint, DCOracle2) and installs it as an RPM package. This makes it visible/uninstallable from the yast rpm manager.

Install from source, since installing using RPM didn't work for me on Novell SuSE SLES 9

========================= Installation results ===========================
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/installwatch.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.


Commands


wget http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/source/checkinstall-1.6.0.tgz
tar -zxvf checkinstall-1.6.0.tgz
cd checkinstall


Read installation instructions

more INSTALL


Install Checkinstall from source

make
su
make install
/usr/local/sbin/checkinstall


Add /usr/local/sbin to path for user if you like. Add to ~/.profile to make path change persist.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin


On SuSE, to add to the PATH for everybody:
as root make a file /etc/profile.local with the content you want