xfce installer problem

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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This is already a known issue; please see the mailing list archives in
the past couple weeks.

    -brian

Chris Green wrote:

> I've been trying to upgrade my xfce installation, I have to say
> it's not trivial.
>
> First I completely destroyed my old installation, by mistake, I
> just cleared out a few old files and the result was that xfce
> refused to start at all, wdm just fell over.
>
> So I logged in as root and decided to build a completely new
> installation, I've downloaded the xfce4-4.2.2-installer.bin and run
> that.
>
> It starts off OK but I get an error when trying to build the Xfce
> Icon Theme. The error is:- gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for
> `install-exec-am'.
> /tmp/xfce4-4.2.2-installer/xfce4-icon-theme/install-sh -d
> /tmp/xfce4-4.2.2-installer/destdir.27014/usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/48x48/filesystems
> test -z "/usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/48x48/filesystems" || mkdir
> -p --
> "/tmp/xfce4-4.2.2-installer/destdir.27014/usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/48x48/filesystems"
> mkdir: cannot create directory
> `/tmp/xfce4-4.2.2-installer/destdir.27014/usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/48x48/filesystems':
> File exists gmake[4]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
>
> Is this a known error? How do I fix it?
>
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