Wanting to compile the gaim 2.0 beta

[SleepWalkerX]

I'm currently running Suse 10.0 and unfortunately I can't find out if anyone maintains suse rpms for gaim or I can't find a repository that hosts it.

So compilling from source, I'm running in to a problem.

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/man/man1" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/man/man1"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './gaim.1' '/usr/local/man/man1/gaim.1'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/man/man1/gaim.1': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-man1] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Dave/Desktop/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Dave/Desktop/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
Dave@linux:~/Desktop/gaim-2.0.0beta1>

It appears I need permission to write in my /man1 folder. How can I go about granting my user permission to write in the folder? (I'm sure I'd be able to install it as root, but that'd be silly)

Btw, in YaST, I've added my user account, Dave, to the 'man' group, but apparently that doesn't work. Isn't there a command like chmod or something that can help me out?

 

[silverpig]

you have to have write permission to the /usr/local/man/man1 directory, so just chmod that directory. Or install as root.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

How do I write permission? Or which parameter should I use with chmod?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Meh, just used the sudo command. I'll just stick to that. Gaim 2.0 is cool. 🙂

 

[TonyRic]

when installing from source, you configure and make as a user and use sudo to install or su to root and make install.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

But if I login as root and make install won't it install gaim for the root account and not the other ones?

 

[DasFox]

NO and you NEVER login as root, you get a BIG SLAP for that, LOL. You ALWAYS run Linux as a user then switch user (su) to become the root user!

Don't you know how to become root? ----> su 😉

You shouldn't be trying to compile either unless you understand the basics. Running make install into the system is lame and in time things get fouled up when you go to run another make install. Sooner or later this method will get you in trouble and mess things up for you.

Learn what this is all about, you should really LEARN to make packages for the system you are running, since this is SuSe, then you'd want to learn how to make RPMs.

I've run Linux 7 years, run Slackware right now, compile packages for it as a proper Slackware package to install with. I never did make install, it's TERRIBLE package management!