[in reply to message from Tim Ruehsen Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:09:02 +0100] > On Tuesday 04 November 2014 09:25:50 Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 November 2014 07:22:04 address@hidden wrote: > > > As non-root I tried to install wget this way into a user-owned directory: > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/wget-1.16 > > > make > > > make check > > > make install > > >
> > > 4. make install fails (regression to wget-1.15): > > > /usr/bin/install -c wget '/usr/local/bin' > > > > > > /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/bin/wget': Permission denied > Sorry for the delay. > > There is no problem for me ( = I can't reproduce the problem). > BUT I have to 'sudo make install', else the install fails due to > permission problems. Radio Yerevan was asked: "Can wget be installed w/o root privileges into a user-owned directory?" Radio Yerevan answered: "Yes, if you make all standard directories writable for that user."
