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

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