Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

[mreshmi]

Hi,

I am trying to install emacs-22.1 on my home machine. I have already
finished the following steps without any errors:

1	./configure
2	make
3	src/emacs -q

But when I try to install the make file, then the following error is
coming up. It says that is it unable to create directory "/usr/local/
share/emacs".

Thanks in advance,
Reshmi Mitra

Re: Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

[Christian Herenz]

mreshmi@gmail.com schrieb:

> But when I try to install the make file, then the following error is
> coming up. It says that is it unable to create directory "/usr/local/
> share/emacs".
> 

Maybe a stupid question from me, but are you root on that machine? If you make 
install you must be root. If you are not able to gain root priviliges on a 
machine, either ask your sysadmin if he will install it for you or make a local 
install, the INSTALLation instructions teach you how.

Greets,
Christian

Re: Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.03.2008 um 22:37 schrieb mreshmi@gmail.com:
> But when I try to install the make file, then the following error is
> coming up. It says that is it unable to create directory "/usr/local/
> share/emacs".


Could you try 'sudo make install'?

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   Pete

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Re: Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.03.2008 um 22:37 schrieb mreshmi@gmail.com:
> But when I try to install the make file, then the following error is
> coming up. It says that is it unable to create directory "/usr/local/
> share/emacs".


Could you try 'sudo make install'?

--
Greetings

   Pete

Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers.
				- Tony-A (some guy on /.)

Re: Trouble in installing emacs-22.1

[Rupert Swarbrick]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:37:12 -0700, mreshmi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install emacs-22.1 on my home machine. I have already
> finished the following steps without any errors:
> 
> 1	./configure
> 2	make
> 3	src/emacs -q
> 
> But when I try to install the make file, then the following error is
> coming up. It says that is it unable to create directory "/usr/local/
> share/emacs".
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Reshmi Mitra

Hmm, I answered in the first ng I found this in, but in case I'm right, 
it might be helpful to have this for posterity:

"make install" for various packages fails when it tries to make 
subdirectories of a nonexistent directory. Specifically, if /usr/local 
doesn't have much in it yet: and has no share subdirectory, then the make 
install will fail.

Just do, say, "sudo mkdir /usr/local/share" and everything should be rosy.

Rupert