[R] install error

[Yuhong Guo]

Thanks.
But in fact, I used --prefix parameter, the make error 
are still there.

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Roger Peng wrote:

> If you just run the `configure' script without other arguments, it will
> try to install in /usr/local, which you probably don't have permission to
> write to.  
> 
> Just pick a directory that you have permission to write to and use the
> --prefix argument to configure.  For example,
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/home/rpeng/R
> 
> -roger
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> 
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Yuhong Guo wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just download R-1.6.2 source code for unix 
> > to install. I am intalling it under redhat linux.
> > 
> > But after ./configure, when I try to make, 
> > there always error showed: 
> > 
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/BATCH': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/LINK': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rcmd': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rdiff': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rd2dvi': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/Rd2txt': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/config': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/pager': Operation 
> > not permitted
> > /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of `../../bin/texi2dvi': 
> > Operation not permitted
> > 
> > Does anyone know what is the problem? (Oh, I install it as a common user
> > to linux, not as root)?
> > 
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