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kleinfreund
Asked: 2015-12-12 06:33:26 +0800 CST

Permission denied with ./configure [duplicate]

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I am trying to install Open MPI. I downloaded the archive and extracted the folder to /home/. I cded there and entered ./configure --prefix="/opt/openmpi" and got this error:

./configure: line 4840: config.log: Permission denied
./configure: line 4850: config.log: Permission denied

I tried the following:

  • ls -l configure which gives -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root ... configure
  • df -h .. I'm on /dev/sda6
  • grep '\s/home/\s.*noexec' /proc/mounts yields no results
  • Prepend the command with sh

I try to avoid using sudo to install this. What can I do?

software-installation

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As suggested by @Lillox I needed to chwon the directory (e.g. /home/openmpi-1.10.1).

    sudo chown -R user: .

    (After the : the user-group is left out so this command uses the default user group.)

    After that I continued installation with these commands:

    ./configure --prefix="/opt/openmpi"
make all install
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