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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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