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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi