<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">well that is the exact problem, you either elevate the process "sudo make install" or sudo "mkdir /path/to/where/it/belongs" plus a chomod/chown combination.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I thought perhaps it was the directory bu the directory was ~/Downloads . </div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">But how do you give him permission? unix only does file permissions.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Well, when building code that is to be used system wide you would need to run the commands elevated (aka root/sudo). If the build is supposed to run as a local user then making sure that the user you are running as has rights to the location that it is touching (file permissions for example) are in place.</div></div><div><table style="border-top:1px solid #aaabb6;margin-top:30px">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Jan 25, 2016 10:18 PM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to compile something and it is complaining about permisipns.<br clear="all"><div>What should I do to fix it?</div><div><br></div><div><div>test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"</div><div> /usr/bin/install -c geeqie '/usr/local/bin'</div><div>/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/local/bin/geeqie’: Permission denied</div><div>make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1</div><div>make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'</div><div>make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2</div><div>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'</div><div>make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1</div><div>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'</div><div>make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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