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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]installing grep
  • Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:26:08 +0100

On Friday 22 November 2002 19:15, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thank you! That worked beautifly!
>
> Bearcat
>
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:20, Jonathan Evraire wrote:
> > Hi Bearcat,
> > I had this problem myself. I moved egrep and fgrep from /usr/bin to
> > /bin. Turns out the spell needs these to complete properly, but if
> > you've got them the spell chokes 'cause it can't replace the symlinks.
> > By moving them to /bin, the spell can still use them and there's nothing
> > to replace so it can successfully create the symlinks.

I had the same problem several months ags. It was due to installwatch not
tracking files correctly at one point.
> >
> > After casting, be sure to remove the files in /bin.
> >
> > Jonathan Evraire
> > evraire at tuwg.com
> >
> > On 22 Nov 2002, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I know this is probably a simple one, but i can't get grep to cast.
> > > During the install porion i get:
> > >
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
> > > ! Problem Detected !
> > > /usr/bin/install -c grep /usr/bin/grep
> > > ln -s grep /usr/bin/egrep
> > > ln: `/usr/bin/egrep': File exists
> > > make[2]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5/src'
> > > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> > >
> > > I've tried renaming that /usr/bin/egrep but that does nto work. Any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanx,
> > >
> > > Bearcat
> > >
> > >
> > >
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