Installing form CVS

[Dizzybacon]

I'm trying to install mutella from CVS, as the released versions have a problem. The commands given at sourceforge are:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mutella.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mutella login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mutella.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mutella co modulename

After the first command I am prompted for a password I hit enter and I'm back at the command line. I enter the second command (replacing modulename with mutella) and I get:

cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs [checkout aborted]: no repository


Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the source tree.

Dizzy

[Dizzybacon]

Oh, I'm doing all this as root, is that right?

Dizzy

[Dizzybacon]

That should be:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mutella.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mutella login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mutella.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mutella co modulename

[bwkaz]

Works just fine from here... Did you have a ~/.cvspass file before you started? To make sure, do a touch ~/.cvspass, and then start over (from the login).

Running any program that goes out over the Internet for anything as root is a pretty bad idea, actually. And CVS does go out over the Internet. I'd do the checkout and build as a normal user, then the installation as root, personally.

[Dizzybacon]

I didn't have a ~/.cvspass file. Now I do it seems to be working.

Thanks for your help.

It's downloaded the files I think, but now what?

There is an INSTALL file but it tells me to do ./configure, make, make install. Problem is there is no configure file.

Dizzy