Hello,

I am very new on Linux. I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed and I want to install XZ Utils but I get an error when I try to do it. Can you help me telling me what I am doing wrong? or what is missing me?

I execute this three shell commands:

./configure
make
make install

After executing make install I get this:

armi@armi-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/xz-5.2.2$ make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src'
Making install in liblzma
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma'
Making install in api
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma/api'
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma/api'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/include'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/include/lzma'
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/include/lzma’: Permission denied
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 lzma/base.h lzma/bcj.h lzma/block.h lzma/check.h lzma/container.h lzma/delta.h lzma/filter.h lzma/hardware.h lzma/index.h lzma/index_hash.h lzma/lzma12.h lzma/stream_flags.h lzma/version.h lzma/vli.h '/usr/local/include/lzma'
/usr/bin/install: target '/usr/local/include/lzma' is not a directory
Makefile:391: recipe for target 'install-nobase_includeHEADERS' failed
make[4]: *** [install-nobase_includeHEADERS] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma/api'
Makefile:510: recipe for target 'install-am' failed
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma/api'
Makefile:1550: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src/liblzma'
Makefile:419: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/armi/Downloads/xz-5.2.2/src'
Makefile:612: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Welcome to LQ.
Wrong. Must be $ sudo make install


? But why not use the Ubuntu package :
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xz-utils


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Thank you knudfl, as simple as you say. Thanks for your help.