[volunteergrid2-l] errors installing tahoe

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

Hi all,

Since my node seems stable, I'm beginning to upload my backups into
the grid. Since tahoe is running on a dedicated server in its own user
account, I need to make the tahoe executable available to my personal
user account on that server. (Previously I had been running tahoe out
of /home/volunteergrid2/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1/bin.)

When I tried to install tahoe, I got the following error messages:

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eric at io:/home/volunteergrid2/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1$ sudo make install
python ./setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed
running update_version
no version-control data found, leaving _version.py alone
running install
error: You must specify --record or --root when building system packages
make: *** [install] Error 1
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This is why I hate building/installing from source on Linux. What do
--record and --root do? Does "building system packages" refer to
building the executable or a deb/rpm package? Do I actually have to go
back and rebuild the tahoe executable with those options? If so, where
do I insert those options in the "python setup.py build" command line
recommended by quickstart.rst for building the executable? What do
those options do and what should I set them to on my system?

Thanks,
Eric