[GRASS-dev] Gaining write privileges to usr/local and subdirectories

[Paul Schrum]

I started off trying to build it in a directory under my home directory
using the instructions here
<https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies>,
but I could not get it to build.  The only part of those instructions that
I was not following were the path.  So I started using the paths indicated
in those instructions and then it would build.  That is why my copy of the
source is where it is.

Based on yall's comments, I now think it was something other than the path
where I was storing the source code, but I have no idea what.


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> On 23/05/17 17:21, Martin Landa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2017-05-23 17:12 GMT+02:00 Paul Schrum <paul.schrum at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> In following the directions to build grass7_trunk, I put the source under
>>> /usr/local/src/grass7_trunk, and now everything I do which modifies
>>> anything
>>> must be preceeded with sudo.  I would like to eliminate this requirement
>>> for
>>> day-to-day work.
>>>
>>
>> chown [1], chmod [2]. Martin
>>
>> [1] http://www.linfo.org/chown.html
>> [2] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/chmod
>>
>
> Even though these commands do the job, I would not recommend it. Just put
> your entire src tree somewhere into your $HOME directory. No need to have
> it in /usr/local.
>
> Moritz
>
>
>
>
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