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

[Patrick Dunford]

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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