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bernie2436
bernie2436

Reputation: 23901

permission denied error when I run make install to get setup with doxygen

I am following the steps from the doxygen online documentation to get doxygen up and running on OS X 10.7.5. I successfully cloned the repo, ran ./configure and make and then skipped the part that said make distclean. When I try to run make install I get the following error: 

akh2103: make install
/usr/bin/install -d //usr/local/bin
install: chmod 755 //usr/local/bin: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/install -m 755 bin/doxygen        //usr/local/bin
install: //usr/local/bin/doxygen: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 71
  1. I am new to linux/open source development (from .NET) and I'm assuming that making (creating the binary) is different from installing the built code. So I am assuming that I need to run make install even if I am not running the make distclean commands
  2. Assuming I need to run make install how do I go about debugging/getting around this error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5269

Answers (1)

doxygen
doxygen

Reputation: 14869

Try sudo make install if you want to install something in /usr/local/bin, or use the --prefix option of configure to install to a writable location.

Upvotes: 1

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