No, it's because you did not specify a PREFIX during the configure step and the default location /usr/local was used, which your user cannot write to. It says it right in the error message.

On Jan 26, 2016 10:58 AM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I no longer have the files but I am thinking that my user wasn't the owner of the file. If that were the case I suppose chown would have worked if I didn't want to sudo!

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought perhaps it was the directory bu the directory was ~/Downloads .  

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

But how do you give him permission? unix only does file permissions.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

my question was more: how do I giv e it the permission to do the action..... but it is moot now because apt decided to work when I used it the second time.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to break down this error set your error all starts with an inability to create a directory. Lack of permission.

On Jan 25, 2016 10:18 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to compile something and it is complaining about permisipns.

What should I do to fix it?

test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"

  /usr/bin/install -c geeqie '/usr/local/bin'

/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/local/bin/geeqie’: Permission denied

make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'

make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'

make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bmike1/Downloads/geeqie-1.1/src'

make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

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