Type "man fakeroot" to terminal, to see what it does. BUT, I recommend to just use sudo! It is simpler. If you don't have root password, then you have to change installation path.
Jussi On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 18:51, Bill-Lancaster<bill-lancas...@lineone.net> wrote: > > Jean - thanks for the quick reply. > I get "permission denied" when I try to navigate to root. > What is "fakeroot" ? > Bill > > > Jean-Yves F. Barbier-2 wrote: >> >> Bill-Lancaster a écrit : >>> Have been using Gambas for only a short while. >>> >>> Having moved to a new computer I get error when installing Gambas >>> (gambas2-2.15.2). >>> >>> After "make install" the following error occurs (the previous steps were >>> error free) >>> >>> /usr/bin/install -c gbx2 /usr/local/bin/gbx2 >>> >>> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/gbx2': >>> Permission denied >> >> you compiled GB as a user and tried to install it in a system path. >> >> either compile it into root account (or use fakeroot) to install it >> in a system path, or as a user but change the installation path to >> any directory you're able write to (and make sure that this path is >> part of the $PATH env variable to directly access your executable.) >> >> -- >> <Electro> my computer was once one of the building blocks of a great >> pyramid >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 >> 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >> on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Gambas-user mailing list >> Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Installing-Gambas2-tp25202728p25204028.html > Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user