Re: fakeroot make-jpkg permissions

[paul hopton <paul@paulhopton.com>]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for the response.

I ran the command from my home directory (i.e not in the folder where 
the file was) as Adam suggested and it worked!

Cheers

Paul Hopton



> > 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