reopen 655031 thanks Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com> writes: >> The alien-arena wrapper script tries to make a link from /usr/share/games >> /alien-arena/data1 to "$HOME/.config/alien-arena" which fails. >> Creating the link by hand fails as well. It succeeds with sudo, tough. > > Your permissions on that directory structure must somehow be set as > unwritable by your own account. You'll have to fix that yourself. > > $ chmod a+w $HOME/.config/alien-arena > > should fix it. If not, $HOME/.config itself isn't writable and you'll > need to fix that similarly.
No, it looks like a bug in the wrapper script: if $HOME/.config/alien-arena does not exist then alien-arena will be a symlink to /usr/share/games/alien-arena/data1. I guess this symlink should be created inside the alien-arena directory instead, that is it needs to mkdir -p $HOME/.config/alien-arena first. In addition the wrapper should probably only try to do this if the directories (the symlink) do not exist already and use "set -e". Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org