Re: fakeroot make-jpkg permissions
On 4/22/05, paul hopton <paul@paulhopton.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
Hi
> I'm a little new here, so excuse me if I'm missing the obvious.
>
> I want to set up Tomcat 5.5 so I need to install the j2sdk 5.0. I've
> got the binary from sun, java-package and fakeroot installed. .
>
> paul@debian:/usr/local/bin$ fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_02-linux-i586.bin
>
> goes through the make process but then bombs out here:
>
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/usr/local/bin/sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update02_i386.deb': Permission denied
>
> Aborted (/usr/local/bin/).
>
> What am I missing? Any clues would be a great help.
Looks like you're running the command in /usr/local/bin as a normal
user, so when it tries to save out the deb, it can't due to
permissions. Run the same command in your home directory and all
should work.
Cheers
Adam
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