Thanks Jan and Thomas for your advices.
Jan de Groot wrote:
Please make a /home/ftp/other/texlive and put your sources in there. If there's loads of sources, make subdirectories inside there to organize it better.
OK, but : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkdir /home/ftp/other/texlivemkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ftp/other/texlive': Permission denied
I guess I have to be in the ftp-arch group.