Have a look at the commands chown: change the owner/group chmod: change permissions
What you have to do is to make /opt/sage-6.2 writable by you, not the whole /opt. The simplest way, assuming that your username is alasdair, is to change the owner of everything in /opt/sage-6.2 with sudo chown -R alasdair:alasdair /opt/sage-6.2 and then run make as alasdair. 2014-06-07 9:35 UTC+02:00, Alasdair <amc...@gmail.com>: > Thanks for that - I compiled it as root, so that it could write to the > directory /opt/sage-6.2. There should have been no permission problems. > (In essence, I did what I've always done: opened up a login shell as root, > and installed sage in the directory /opt/sage-x.y. > > However! I've just discovered a series of posts on this very topic: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/H-SI3700rGc and it > seems that the trick is to compile Sage as non-root. I wonder what the > best way to do that is; I don't want Sage and all of its bits cluttering up > > my home directory, which I like to keep streamlined. Maybe if I make the > /opt directory writable by me... I'll keep you posted! > > Thanks, > Alasdair > > On Saturday, 7 June 2014 16:22:13 UTC+10, vdelecroix wrote: >> >> From your logs it seems to be a permission problem. What user own >> /opt/sage-6.2 ? and what are the permissions ? >> >> 2014-06-07 3:15 UTC+02:00, Alasdair <amc...@gmail.com <javascript:>>: >> > Here's the error as reported during the compilation process: >> > >> > checking for python... /opt/sage-6.2/local/bin/python >> >> checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... sys:1: RuntimeWarning: >> not >> >> >> >> adding directory '' to sys.path since it's writable by an untrusted >> >> group. >> >> Untrusted users could put files in this directory which might then be >> >> imported by your Python code. As a general precaution from similar >> >> exploits, you should not execute Python code from this directory >> >> yes >> >> checking for the distutils Python package... no >> >> configure: error: cannot import Python module "distutils". >> >> Please check your Python installation. The error was: >> >> sys:1: RuntimeWarning: not adding directory '' to sys.path since it's >> >> writable by an untrusted group. >> >> Untrusted users could put files in this directory which might then be >> >> imported by your Python code. As a general precaution from similar >> >> exploits, you should not execute Python code from this directory >> >> make[3]: Entering directory >> >> `/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2/src' >> >> make[3]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. >> >> make[3]: Leaving directory >> >> `/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2/src' >> >> Error building pynac. >> >> >> >> real 0m0.869s >> >> user 0m0.528s >> >> sys 0m0.384s >> >> >> ************************************************************************ >> >> Error installing package pynac-0.3.2 >> >> >> ************************************************************************ >> >> Please email sage-devel (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel) >> >> explaining the problem and including the relevant part of the log file >> >> >> >> /opt/sage-6.2/logs/pkgs/pynac-0.3.2.log >> >> Describe your computer, operating system, etc. >> >> If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to >> >> /opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2 and type 'make' or >> >> whatever is appropriate. >> >> Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables >> >> correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error: >> >> (cd '/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2' && >> >> '/opt/sage-6.2/sage' --sh) >> >> When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell. >> >> >> >> >> ************************************************************************ >> >> make[2]: *** [/opt/sage-6.2/local/var/lib/sage/installed/pynac-0.3.2] >> >> Error 1 >> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/sage-6.2/build' >> >> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 >> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/sage-6.2/build' >> >> >> >> real 150m50.768s >> >> user 131m18.168s >> >> sys 17m8.948s >> >> *************************************************************** >> >> Error building Sage. >> >> >> >> The following package(s) may have failed to build: >> >> >> >> package: pynac-0.3.2 >> >> log file: /opt/sage-6.2/logs/pkgs/pynac-0.3.2.log >> >> build directory: /opt/sage-6.2/local/var/tmp/sage/build/pynac-0.3.2 >> >> >> >> The build directory may contain configuration files and other >> potentially >> >> helpful information. WARNING: if you now run 'make' again, the build >> >> directory will, by default, be deleted. Set the environment variable >> >> SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this. >> >> >> >> make: *** [build] Error 1 >> >> >> > >> > I'm attempting this on a new installation of kubuntu 14.04 64-bit. This >> > >> is >> > >> > the first time, in maybe 20 Sage compilations over the years, that I've >> > >> > encountered an error. I've aso checked that I do have distutils, it was >> > >> > installed when I installed Python initially (version 2.7); there is also >> > >> > distutils for Python 3.4; I imagine loaded as part of the Sage compile >> > process. >> > >> > Any advice? >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
