using checkinstall Compiling checkinstall for Fedora 13 is tricky, and described in this tip. Also on that page are the edits required to get it to work under RHEL6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6). It seems that checkinstall adds the directories /selinux and /selinux/context to the package it builds. This leads to an error like "error: unpacking of archive failed on file /selinux/context" when instal