terminator on RHEL?

[billq]

I've been using terminator on RHEL for months. It was an older
version, but it worked great. I wanted to upgrade, and tried building
and installing salma-hayek and terminator. I have multiple JDK
installations available, but my default is 64 bit jdk1.6.0_16.

When compiling, I see no errors whatsover. My PATH includes the 64
bit JDK bin, and the build finishes cleanly.

When doing a make install, howver, the makefile is trying to use dpkg-
deb, which just is not going to work on this redhat box.

Is anyone doing a successful build and install of terminator on a RHEL/
Centos box, and if so, could they share the magic?

Thanks!
-Bill

[Martin Dorey]

According to a code-comment in salma-hayek/lib/build/universal.make:

 

# We use Debian packaging tools to build RPM installers, so "make installer" is unlikely work on RedHat.

# And "make install" always rebuilds the installer because of the bogus ".app" target.

# The command you want on RedHat is:

# sudo rpm -i `make -f ../salma-hayek/lib/build/universal.make echo.INSTALLER.rpm`

 

That's saying that you'd probably need to build the .rpm on Debian.  The only code we have for building .rpm files is this one line for converting the .deb:

 

$(INSTALLER.rpm): $(INSTALLER.deb)

...

fakeroot alien --to-rpm $(abspath $<)

 

Did you have a particular need or desire to build from source?  If not, there's always:

 

http://software.jessies.org/downloads/redhat/org.jessies.terminator.x86_64.rpm

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[billq]

doh!

So, as it turns out, the "default" java that was setup on the server
was pointing to a 32-bit version. I changed the link to point to the
same (64-bit) version that I was using to compile and that did the
trick. (using the pre-compiled rpm)

I haven't been able to successfully build it on RHEL, but now that the
rpm is working, that will take a back seat.

Thanks!

-Bill

BTW - terminator rocks. You have no idea how much work this thing has
saved me. Thank you so much.