Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16: 1 configure error, 2 make check errors, 1 permission error

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

address@hidden writes:

> [in reply to message from Tim Ruehsen Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:09:02 +0100]
>> On Tuesday 04 November 2014 09:25:50 Tim Ruehsen wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 04 November 2014 07:22:04 address@hidden wrote:
>> > > As non-root I tried to install wget this way into a user-owned
> directory:
>> > >        ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/wget-1.16
>> > >        make
>> > >        make check
>> > >        make install
>> > >
>
>> > > 4. make install fails (regression to wget-1.15):
>> > >   /usr/bin/install -c wget '/usr/local/bin'
>> > >
>> > > /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/bin/wget': Permission
> denied
>
>> Sorry for the delay.
>>
>> There is no problem for me ( = I can't reproduce the problem).
>> BUT I have to 'sudo make install', else the install fails due to
>> permission problems.
>
> Radio Yerevan was asked: "Can wget be installed w/o root privileges into
> a user-owned directory?"
>
> Radio Yerevan answered: "Yes, if you make all standard directories
> writable for that user."

it just works for me:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/wget-1.16/
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) /usr/local/wget-1.16
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/wget-1.16
make
make install


Can you please double check the permissions on the destination
directory?

Giuseppe