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I have used checkinstall in Ubuntu 18.04, and 16.04, however in 24.04 I it seems no longer work as expected. Here is a step by step description (but you need a recent emacs version installed)

clone the auctex package via git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/auctex.git

switch to the master branch via git switch --guess master

run

./autogen.sh

run ./configure --with-emacs=/opt/emacs29/bin/emacs --prefix=$HOME/ALLES/ --with-lispdir=$HOME/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git --without-texmf-dir

make

make install

that works however

checkinstall or checkinstall make install return the following error.

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 preview.sty /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: install-texmf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/oub/tmp/auctex/latex'
make: *** [Makefile:324: install-texmf] Error 2


****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.


Cleaning up...OK


Bye.

Any idea who is the culprit here? There is a github page https://github.com/ruxkor/checkinstall but the last commit is 16 years ago, the issues are not answered. That is why I post it here. regards

Uwe Brauer

Uwe Brauer
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  • Are you sure the issue is with checkinstall - rather than with your choice of configuration options? Does directory $HOME/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git exist, for example? – steeldriver Jul 18 '24 at 12:41
  • well this directory does not exist, but make install does create it for example, and so did checkinstall in the past. I tried to generate the directory anyhow, but it does not make any difference – Uwe Brauer Jul 18 '24 at 13:00

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Recently, I had the same issue after upgrading to 24.04. The fix is rather easy, only adding --fstrans=no to the checkinstall call solved it for me, i.e. sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no should work.

Gibtnix
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  • Adding --fstrans=no helped me create a .deb file after custom compiling PHP 8.4 on Ubuntu 24.04 too. Thanks! – Rubix Jan 13 '25 at 17:40