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I am trying to install qt to my usr/local folder so I can upgrade to kde3.2 and it says I can't copy as there is no write permission. How do I go about changing permission for copying purpose?
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
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hi ontwolf, welcome to lq. may i ask what distro your running? the answer may lead to succces, as i'm unaware of any program being installed by copying it to a folder. there should be some type of package available, if not you will have to compile from source.
Also...usually when you install programs you should be running as root (unless it only installs in a user's home directory that it). You don't mention if you're doing this as a regular user or logged in as root or using 'su' (which is preferable to running as root).
I am using Fedora
When I try and install kde3.2 it can't find qt,
I downloaded the qt package and it tells me to unzip into usr/ local folder before configuring package.
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