apt-get source failure?
i'm trying to get a current version of gkrellm on my potato server so i
can view it remotely over an ssh login.
but....
make enable_nls=1
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
(cd locale && make all)
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
msgfmt -f -v -o de.mo de.po
make[2]: msgfmt: Command not found
make[2]: *** [de.mo] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Build command 'cd gkrellm-1.0.7 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
that seems the important part. what is msgfmt, and why is it failing?
truffula:~# apt-get --compile source gkrellm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 379kB of source archives.
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in gkrellm-1.0.7
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gkrellm
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.0.7-2
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
utmp entry ("forrest") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using
"root" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
dh_clean
make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
(cd locale && make clean)
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
rm -f de.mo es.mo fr.mo ja.mo
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
(cd src && make clean)
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/src'
rm -f *.o *~ *.bak gkrellm core
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
rm -fr build-stamp install-stamp
debian/rules build DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
make enable_nls=1
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
(cd locale && make all)
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
msgfmt -f -v -o de.mo de.po
make[2]: msgfmt: Command not found
make[2]: *** [de.mo] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
Build command 'cd gkrellm-1.0.7 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
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