Re: [XForms] please help me to install Xforms

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi Husein,

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:04:27PM +0000, H. Alhamada wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I followed the instruction of 
> http://xforms-toolkit.org/installation.html
> 
> after 
> ./configure
> 
> I get this message on terminal
> 
> Configuration
>   Host type:                      x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>   Special build flags:
>   C Compiler:                     gcc
>   C Compiler flags:               -O
>   Linker flags:
> 
> Configuration of xforms was successful.
> Type 'make' to compile the program,
> and then 'make install' to install it.
> 
> then make
> 
> and when I wrote
> 
> make Install , I get the following message :
> 
> Making install in fd

Sorry, what's "in fd"? But might not be really relevant.

> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/fd'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/fd'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/fd'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/fd'
> Making install in include
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/include'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/include'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/usr/local/include" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/include"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 forms.h '/usr/local/include'
> /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/local/include/forms.h': Permission 
> denied
> make[3]: *** [install-nodist_includeHEADERS] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/include'
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib/include'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin123/xforms-1.0.93sp1/lib'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> address@hidden:~/xforms-1.0.93sp1$ 
>  
> so would you please hepl to to install Xforms

To install the library etc. system-wide you need root permissions
and it looks like you didn't have them when you tried. Depending
on what you're allowed to do the simplest solution might be to
use

sudo make install

If you're allowed to use 'sudo' you then will b asked for
your (normal) password and, if you enter it, the installation
should succeed.

If you're not in the group of users allowed to use 'sudo' but
know the root password, then you could try

su -c 'make install'

in that case you'll be asked for the root password and if
you enter that correctly the installation should be run
through.

If you neither are allowed to use 'sudo' nor know the root
password the best thing would be to ask your system admini-
strator. If he refuses you still can do a local (to some-
where in your home directory) install, but that's a bit
more hassle, so I leave an explanation for the case that
you can't get it installed system-wide;-)

                              Best regards, Jens
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