How to "make install" while not a root?
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From: shady on 27 Apr 2010 22:43 Hi, I do not have root permissions or even write permissions on some paths as a regular user. So, I'm trying to install a package in my home directory using the "make install" command. However, I get this famous message of "Error: *** [blabla] Error 1", I guess becuase I'm not a root user. My attempt to solve this was maybe to look into the Makefile and change some paths that "make install" try to access, and which I don't have write permissions to; maybe that would have solved my error message problem. But, when I opened it, I found it's really huge. Any idea of how to "make install" while not being a root? Thanks!
From: Kevin Kenny on 27 Apr 2010 23:06 shady wrote: > Any idea of how to "make install" while not being a root? Start over from 'make distclean'. Run the 'configure' script and this time give it --prefix=/path/where/you/want/it If you have write permission to /path/where/you/want/it, 'make install' will work fine. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
From: shady on 28 Apr 2010 00:24 On Apr 28, 12:06 pm, Kevin Kenny <kenn...(a)acm.org> wrote: > shady wrote: > > Any idea of how to "make install" while not being a root? > > Start over from 'make distclean'. > > Run the 'configure' script and this time give it > --prefix=/path/where/you/want/it > > If you have write permission to /path/where/you/want/it, > 'make install' will work fine. > -- > 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin Thank you, Kevin. It worked fine for this package. However, when I tried to do the same for another, it showed a bit of success with the configure and make commands. But, when I typed the "make install" one, I got the make error written slightly different this way: make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 ; where the 1 in the square brackets is added this time. Anyway, this error was bi-passed, then I got the Error 2 message which halted the "make install". Error 2 message looked like this: make: *** [install] Error 2 Any tips? Thanks!
From: Kevin Kenny on 28 Apr 2010 08:08 shady wrote: > Thank you, Kevin. It worked fine for this package. However, when I > tried to do the same for another, it showed a bit of success with the > configure and make commands. But, when I typed the "make install" one, > I got the make error written slightly different this way: > > make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 ; where the 1 in the square brackets is > added this time. > > Anyway, this error was bi-passed, then I got the Error 2 message which > halted the "make install". Error 2 message looked like this: > > make: *** [install] Error 2 > > Any tips? If it's not Tcl itself that you're building, but some other package, it would be helpful to tell us what package. Also, usually, the "Error 1" line is preceded by a different error message that is likely to be more informative. (The "Error 1" simply indicates that a subprocess has exited with a nonzero status code.) -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
From: phil on 28 Apr 2010 10:36
A lot of tcl packages assume you are using /usr/bin/tclsh (and dont five you options of overriding it at configure time. Tsk tsk). The package ends up installing themselves in the "info library" that / usr/bin/tclsh returns. Edit the makefile and look for /usr/bin/tclsh... and change it to "your special compiled version of tcl"... Made up example: TCLMAKEVAR=/usr/bin/tclsh to TCLMAKEVAR=/home/me/bin/tclsh |