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

[Patrick Dunford]

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 
> <mailto: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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