[Pan-users] Re: Permissions Re: Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:13:12 +0100, Rhialto wrote:

> On Sun 08 Mar 2009 at 15:32:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>      However, trying to do a make install on build_GarminDev, which
>> contains qlandkarte, I got an error :
>> 
>> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:36 (FILE):
>>   file Problem setting permissions on file
>>   "/usr/include/garmin/IDevice.h"
>> 
>>      Fwiw, I did a chown -R on that, and make install ran.
>> 
>>      What is bothering me is finding permission problems buried way
>> down deep in new stuff.
> 
> Well, normally, the installation procedures are run as root (the
> superuser), who owns /usr/include/ and most other installed files. You
> can "get around" that by chowning more and more files/directories to
> make them owned by you, but then you lose the advantage of the different
> owners. It means you could now do something bad to those files by
> accident, and not be protected by the lack of permission to do so.

        Iiuc, the trouble is that I'm swinging too big a hammer. Right? 
So I ought to chown all of /usr/include back to root -- and then do what 
about the permission trouble? (I had tried doing make install both as 
root and as user, and failed with both, though I see I neglected to say 
so.)

        I never have been able to get my head around the details of 
permissions. They're like grub: the concept is plain enough, but every 
attempt to adjust details (with chmod? or is there a chperm??) gets me 
snarled up like a bug in a web.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.