Re: [Pan-users] Re: Permissions Re: Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Rhialto]

On Sun 08 Mar 2009 at 15:32:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>       However, trying to do a make install on build_GarminDev, which 
> contains qlandkarte, I got an error : 
> 
> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:36 (FILE):
>   file Problem setting permissions on file "/usr/include/garmin/IDevice.h"
> 
>       Fwiw, I did a chown -R on that, and make install ran.
> 
>       What is bothering me is finding permission problems buried way 
> down deep in new stuff.

Well, normally, the installation procedures are run as root (the
superuser), who owns /usr/include/ and most other installed files. You
can "get around" that by chowning more and more files/directories to
make them owned by you, but then you lose the advantage of the different
owners. It means you could now do something bad to those files by
accident, and not be protected by the lack of permission to do so.

-Olaf.
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