----- Original Message ---- > From: Bob McConnell <rmcconne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 10:44:59 AM > Subject: Problem with checkinstall > > I installed checkinstall 1.6.2 on CentOS 5.4 VM (VMWare Server on > WinXP). After getting the dependencies installed it compiled with no > errors. But when I run it in its own source directory, I keep getting an > error that I can't track down. The message is: > > install: cannot change ownership of '/usr/local/lib/installwatch.so': No > such file or directory. > > But not only does the file exist, it has the correct permissions and > creation time. I am running this as root. I did change the permissions > on both make and install to 0755, but that did not help. The command > line is: Is SELinux enabled? it sounds like the typical SELinux-related problem. what does "getenforce" say? check the output of "ls -lZ /usr/local/lib/ " to get the file's context Hope this helps Fer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos