[GRASS-user] Help installing from http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Fri Feb 19 10:10:06 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Martin Album Ytre-Eide
<Martin.Album.Ytre-Eide at nrpa.no> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I updated my GRASS 6.5 and now I get a different error:
>
> mkdir -p /usr/local/src/grass6_devel/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc/paint/patterns/
> /usr/bin/install -c  -m 644 patterns/*.eps /usr/local/src/grass6_devel/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc/paint/patterns/
> Installing ps.output...
> touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/g.extension.12845': Permission denied
> ERROR: Cannot write to </usr/local/grass-6.5.svn>, installation failed
>
> The permission should be alright, but the catalog /usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/g.extension.12845 does not seem to exist.

Please check the file permissions in
/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn
I suspect that it was installed with root permissions/sudo before and now you
try as normal user or so.

Markus


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