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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:18:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMr3RjZAqlsztCAb@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POLP7S3c_CE_VtkwU4oqVemQeG1vjaRn4aCD2hzMR6G1Bw@mail.gmail.com>

* 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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-17  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17  3:08 Execute Emacs command with root privilege Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-17  7:18 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-06-17  8:26   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-18  3:46     ` Hongyi Zhao

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