On 5/20/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is permission denied on *your* system. You need to log > > in as a user with write permission to SAGE_ROOT/tmp/. > > Thanks, that did the trick. This time I did the whole build in > /usr/local as root so had to change permissions later (and for this > extra optional install). >
I'm glad it worked. > Incidentally, where in the installation manual (in section 3.2.1 > System-wide install) it says to do > > > chmod a+r -R /usr/local/sage-1.2.0 > > I would recommend instead > > chmod a+rX -R /usr/local/sage-1.2.0 > > -- where the X (in upper case!) means to add x permission to all where > it exists for the owner but not otherwise. Which is usually what you want. Thanks. I've always wondered how to do that! -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
