compile image viewer geeqie

[Michael]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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