On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:34 +0100, Douglas Campbell wrote: > Dear all Ubuntu users > > I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download > some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the > following messages: > > trying URL > 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/src/contrib/QCAGUI_1.2-7.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1017887 bytes > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 994Kb > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK': > Permission denied
You need to install with root access as a normal user doesn't have write access to /usr/* . The easiest way to do this is probably from the console. 'sudo' (superuser do) will give the application root access. $ sudo tar xvzf QCAGUI_1.2-7.tar.gz PASSWORD: <- Your current user password. Or if this is part of an installation script: $ sudo ./installme.sh Kind Regards, Dave Walker
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