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Shobi
Shobi

Reputation: 43

Permission Denied: Initializing repo for building Android source

Linux and programming noob here...

I'm following the instructions @ http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html I run into trouble when I run the following line:

curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo

I get:

bash: /home/dev/bin/repo: Permission denied

And yes I've tried to sudo it.

Thank you! :)

================================================================================== EDIT:

I downloaded the script manually in a browser, popped-it into the home/dev/bin/ directory, and I am still unable to progress. Here is what my terminal window is giving me:

dev@Android-Dev:~$ sudo chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

[sudo] password for dev: 

dev@Android-Dev:~$ cd /home/dev/bin/

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin$ sudo mkdir wip

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin$ cd wip

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin/wip$ repo init -u **<This is where the URL goes>**

fatal: cannot make .repo directory: Permission denied

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin/wip$ sudo repo init -u **<This is where the URL goes>**

sudo: repo: command not found

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin/wip$ cd bin

bash: cd: bin: No such file or directory

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin/wip$ cd ..

dev@Android-Dev:~/bin$ sudo repo init -u **<This is where the URL goes>**

sudo: repo: command not found

Upvotes: 3

Views: 22872

Answers (5)

MikeInDetroit
MikeInDetroit

Reputation: 226

In CYGWIN you can do below.

  1. edit .bash_profile and uncomment these fields. (any text editor will do)
# Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
# if [ -d "${HOME}/bin" ] ; then
#   PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
# fi
  1. Restart CYGWIN.

Under BASH, enter:

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

Or add as follows to your .bashrc file:

$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

If you are using CSH / TCSH, enter:

$ echo 'set PATH = ($PATH ~/bin /scripts/admin)' >> ~/.cshrc

To display path settings, enter:

$ echo $PATH

Upvotes: 1

Sraddha Iman
Sraddha Iman

Reputation: 21

I ran into the same problem. changing the ownership helped me. When I try to curl https..://myrepo...u...r...l../repo > ./repo into my /opt/android dir it gives me this error. I do sudo chown -R shraddha /opt/android that works

Upvotes: 2

Jonathan Winwood
Jonathan Winwood

Reputation: 1

The repo file is not executable. Run chmod a+x ~/bin/repo to turn it into an executable file and this should fix your problem.

Upvotes: 0

Juno.X
Juno.X

Reputation: 1

you can try this: wget http://git-repo.googlecode.com/files/repo-1.14

After that, you can see the repo-1.14, and you can mv it to anywhere or change the name,such as : sudo mv repo-1.14 ~/bin/repo

Upvotes: 0

Yury
Yury

Reputation: 20936

Maybe you're behind a proxy? Try to download repo tool manually (just put this link into your browser). (I guess that maybe this resource can be prohibited for you). And then put it into this folder and assign permissions to it. I do not see any wrong steps in what you've described so far.

Upvotes: 0

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