Issue installing on Ubuntu 18.04

[adambirds]

Getting the below issue when trying to install 2.7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04:

Making install in etc
make[1]: Entering directory '/opt/smokeping/etc'
make[2]: Entering directory '/opt/smokeping/etc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 /bin/mkdir -p '/opt/smokeping/etc'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 basepage.html.dist config.dist smokemail.dist smokeping_secrets.dist tmail.dist '/opt/smokeping/etc'
/usr/bin/install: 'basepage.html.dist' and '/opt/smokeping/etc/basepage.html.dist' are the same file
/usr/bin/install: 'config.dist' and '/opt/smokeping/etc/config.dist' are the same file
/usr/bin/install: 'smokemail.dist' and '/opt/smokeping/etc/smokemail.dist' are the same file
/usr/bin/install: 'smokeping_secrets.dist' and '/opt/smokeping/etc/smokeping_secrets.dist' are the same file
/usr/bin/install: 'tmail.dist' and '/opt/smokeping/etc/tmail.dist' are the same file
Makefile:299: recipe for target 'install-etcDATA' failed
make[2]: *** [install-etcDATA] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/opt/smokeping/etc'
Makefile:369: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/smokeping/etc'
Makefile:363: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[oetiker]

I guess you are trying to install into the same directory where you unpacked the source ... this does not generally work so well :)