On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Markus Metz <markus.metz.gisw...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Daniel Victoria wrote: >> I just issued "make install" and installed grass65 at >> /usr/local/grass-6.5.svn. Now, g.extension tries to install >> r.stream.order but complains about permissions. Taking ownership of >> the install dir fixes the problem. So, what would be the "correct" way >> to use g.extension, run grass as root or take ownership of the install >> dir? >> > Maybe you could just ignore the install-related error messages and > check if r.stream.order is available when you are running grass > "straight from the build directory (start script at > ./bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu and binaries at ./dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu)" > > In this case, i.e. running grass from the build directory, you could > download any addon to the appropriate directory, run make and it > should be available (not sure about manuals though, which are > important...) when running grass from the build directory. > > Otherwise, if you installed grass as root (make install as root), you > most probably also have to install addons as root.
Perhaps we need to add some sudo magic...? Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user