[volunteergrid2-l] errors installing tahoe

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 12/04/12 02:35, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> On 12/04/12 01:14, erpo41 at gmail.com wrote:
>> When I tried to install tahoe, I got the following error messages:
>>
>> -------------------
>> 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
>> ----------------------
> 
> The 'install' Makefile target should not be using
> --single-version-externally-managed; I'll file a ticket about that.

Filed as <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1717>.

> As a workaround, use 'sudo python ./setup.py install'.

Does this workaround work on your system?

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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