[SOLVED] Permission Errors on Tarball Instalation

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 07:04 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to manually install the latest release of flac 1.3.0, and I keep getting this message when I run:

./configure && make && make install

/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/doc/flac-1.3.0’: Permission denied

Even when I run it as root, I experience the same problem.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Kogami

andrewthomas · 11-07-2013, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kogami

Hi,

I'm trying to manually install the latest release of flac 1.3.0, and I keep getting this message when I run:

./configure && make && make install

/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/doc/flac-1.3.0’: Permission denied

Even when I run it as root, I experience the same problem.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Kogami

What is wrong with the package in the repo?

If you insist on doing this just grab the saucy source package

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo....debian.tar.gz

and build a proper package that you can install with dpkg.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 07:40 PM

When I checked, the repos didn't have the right package, as 1.3.0 came out only a couple days ago. But I'll try that method, and see if it works.

Kogami

AlucardZero · 11-07-2013, 07:42 PM

You are sudo'ing the 'make install', yes?
If root can't write to /usr/local, then you have a read-only partition (as if it's encountered an error) or it's NFS-mounted.

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 07:55 PM

Okay, so I repackaged the original extracted tarball into a debian package using checkinstall, installed it, and everything was fine.

Until I actually used it:

flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.2.1

Right. So I took a new piece of software, put it through checkinstall, and it magically became old software.

Apparently, updating software in linux is the computer equivalent of brain surgery...

Regards,
Kogami

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

You are sudo'ing the 'make install', yes?
If root can't write to /usr/local, then you have a read-only partition (as if it's encountered an error) or it's NFS-mounted.

The exact command was:

sudo ./configure && make && make install

I'll try

sudo ./configure && make && sudo make install

Kogami

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 08:01 PM

Okay, figured it out.

The problem all along, was that when flac printed the version number, it still said

flac 1.2.1

So for some odd reason, it doesn't SAY that it's updated, but it seems to have the updated capabilities.

Otherwise, both checkinstall and adding sudo to the make install command proved to be accurate.

I apologize for my stupid comments about checkinstall, and for any confusion.

Thank you for your help everyone!

Regards,
Kogami

andrewthomas · 11-07-2013, 08:15 PM

You're welcome.

Quote:

Originally Posted by changelog

flac (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Imported Upstream version 1.3.0 (Closes: #527542, #705601).
* Update debian/watch file, thanks Ulrich Klauer (Closes: #710062).
* Revert "Remove manpages from master branch."
* Imported Upstream version 1.3.0
* Convert package to "3.0 (quilt)" source format.
* Remove all patches, they have either been merged upstream or do not
apply anymore (tested).
* Explicitly enable static libraries.
* Simplify debian/libflac-doc.install.
* Bump shlibs for added symbols.
* Remove needless Build-Depends: libid3-3.8.3-dev.
* Update Homepage field.
* Repair upstream manpage regeneration rule.
* Bump Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9).
* Fix vcs-field-not-canonical.
* Import two patches from upstream GIT:
+ Add missing config.h includes.
+ Fix local_strcat() to terminate string correctly.
* Disable 3DNow! optimizations, enable SSE only on amd64, enable Altivec
only on ppc64, disable ASM optimizations elsewhere.
  -- Fabian Greffrath <fabian+debian@greffrath.com> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:24:30 +0200

AlucardZero · 11-07-2013, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kogami

The exact command was:

sudo ./configure && make && make install

Yeah, that's not running make and make install as root. the sudo only applies to the first command, as && signifies the start of a new command. So your regular user can't write to /usr, as expected. PS, no need to sudo ./configure or make.
Updating software in Linux is super trivial unless you want the super bleeding edge.
PS - you should specify your distro. Your profile says Mint, but the first reply assumed Ubuntu, but you went with a Debian package? [perhaps my ignorance of Mint is showing]
I have no idea how Mint works, but doesn't the presence of flac_1.3.0-1*deb in the list at http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/pool/main/f/flac/ mean your desired version [from May] is in Mint already?

Kogami · 11-07-2013, 09:43 PM

Mint is based off of Ubuntu and can run Debian packages, but I'll try to fix that in the user profile. I can see I need to revisit basic bash commands...yikes.

Kogami