I ran into a very annoying problem while working on hw2 for my System Administration class, specifically during installation of Bugzilla on a barebones Fedora 12 virtual machine.

After running ./checksetup.pl in /usr/share/bugzilla, the following error sprung up:

Creating contrib/.htaccess...
No such file or directory at Bugzilla/Install/Filesystem.pm line 485, <DATA> line 228.

I was unable to find anything about it online, but it turned out to be a very simple solution of either creating a contrib directory in /usr/share/bugzilla:

mkdir contrib

Or creating a symbolic link as my professor suggested on the mailing list:

ln -s . contrib

And then re-running the checksetup.pl script. I didn’t try the symbolic link but I have no reason to believe my professor is wrong =).