Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege.

[Jean Louis]

* Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2021-06-17 06:09]:
> In Emacs, when I issue the 'M-x TeX-auto-generate-global' command
> after loading AUCTeX, the followng error will be triggered:
> 
> TeX-auto-store: Opening output file: Permission denied,
> /usr/local/var/auctex/amsppt.el
> 
> Is it possible to enable the root privilege for executing the above
> command?

It seems like auctex wrote or wanted to write something in system's
directory /usr/local/var/auctex/ but it could not.

Instead of root privilege you should maybe verify that you have write
permissions to that directory.

Does directory exist? Verify if it is there.


-- 
Jean

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