[GRASS-user] Trouble installing add-ons

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Alessandro Samuel Rosa wrote:

> mkdir -p /build/buildd-grass_6.4.0~rc6+42329-3-amd64-KVGo0t/grass-6.4.0~rc6+42329/bin.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> mkdir: it is impossible to create the "/build" directory: Permission denied.

Alessandro,

   I looks like grass is trying to create the build directory in /usr or
another location that requires root access for writing. On my systems
(Slackware) everything is in ~/ so I have write permissions to create
subdirectories.

Rich