checkinstall fails in debian 12 and ubuntu 24, does find certain files

[ouboub]

Hi
Here is a step by step description (but you need a recent emacs version installed)

• clone the auctex package via git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/auctex.git

• switch to the master branch via git switch --guess master

• ./autogen.sh

• run ./configure --with-emacs=/opt/emacs29/bin/emacs --prefix=/home/oub/ALLES/ --with-lispdir=/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git --without-texmf-dir

• make

• make install
  that works
  however

• checkinstall or checkinstall make install
  return the following error.

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 preview.sty /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prauctex.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prauctex.cfg /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prshowbox.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prshowlabels.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prtracingall.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prtightpage.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prlyx.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prcounters.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 prfootnotes.def /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: install-texmf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/oub/tmp/auctex/latex'
make: *** [Makefile:324: install-texmf] Error 2

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

however in Ubuntu 16 and 18 this worked fien

[github-actions]

@ouboub: hello! 👋

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[ouboub]

what template? where do I find it?

[doomedraven]

Template was disables but bot didn't, idk what you try to install