sudo make install: permission denied
- by Wojtek Rzepala
I have a most annoying question about building from sources. I've searched for an answer for a long while and nowhere can I find one... I've compiled software from sources before and this just baffled me.
So I am trying to install python 2.7.2 from sources. I can do a successful ./configure, also make seems to run fine. But when I do sudo make install, I get a variety of errors...
First, sudo make install gives me this:
make: stat: GNUmakefile: Permission denied
make: stat: makefile: Permission denied
make: stat: Makefile: Permission denied
make: stat: install: Permission denied
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
So I did chmod +rx Makefile*. To no avail.
Then, sudo ls . says
ls: cannot access .: Permission denied
Then ls -d . says the permissions are drwxr-x---
Then, as a desperate measure, chmod +rx .. That gave me:
make: stat: Modules/config.c.in: Permission denied
make: *** No rule to make target `Modules/config.c.in', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.
So some progress... What is happening here? It looks like some sort of permission problem. I presumed that sudo would be the solution but clearly there is something else going on here... I tried sudo -s but I get those permission problems all over again...
I am using Ubuntu 10.04LTS.
