[QGIS-Developer] QGIS make install without root on Ubuntu

[Idan Miara]

$ env | grep HOME=
HOME=/home/idan


On 25 March 2018 at 14:17, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the value of ${HOME} for the current user
>
> Type env in a terminal then read out HOME
>
>
> On 25/03/18 23:55, Idan Miara wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply!
> I followed the instructions as is, including setting:
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to ${HOME}/apps as advised.
> So why does it try (and fail) to set the file /apps//apps/man/man1/qgis.1 ?
>
> On 25 March 2018 at 12:26, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The build instructions advise to put an apps dir in your home path e.g.
>>
>> ~/apps
>>
>> If you choose to put apps in the root path i.e. /apps you must make sure
>> you have given yourself permissions to that path.
>>
>> On 25/03/18 21:56, Idan Miara wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been following the building guide on Ubuntu 17.10 and came across
>> the following issue while running "make install" without root, then I get
>> the error message:
>>
>> CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:36 (file):
>>   file INSTALL cannot set permissions on "/apps//apps/man/man1/qgis.1"
>>
>> If I run it with sudo it installs fine
>> should it work without root?
>>
>> I suppose you intended it to work without root, because I needed to the
>> following commands without $HOME or ${HOME} after running "sudo make
>> install" in order to run QGIS:
>>
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/apps/lib/
>> $HOME/apps/bin/qgis
>>
>> Suppose I run make install, should I still be able to run QGIS from the
>> repos without any issues?
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Idan
>>
>>
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