From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Haywood Subject: Re: Problems compiling Binutils 2.17 Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:11:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4896D5B8.2000505@oak.selfip.net> References: <633001.84864.qm@web59712.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <633001.84864.qm@web59712.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Phil C Cc: Yeti , Newbie Mailing List Phil C wrote: >> It seems like the configure script is not working. >> Did you check whether it is executeable or not? ( chmod +x ) >> > > >> Is it in the directory ../binutils-2.12/ ? >> Why are you installing a system wide libary with sudo and not as root user? >> Yeti >> > > Ill have to check on the permissions. I'm installing with sudo because I use Ubuntu so there is no root login. > > Couple of options I can think of on Ubuntu: 1) sudo su - You now have a root shell to do the install or: 2) add a "wheel" group to /etc/group and add your user id to it in /etc/pam.d/su uncomment "auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust" You can now su without using sudo and without specifying any password so long as you are a member of the wheel group Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs