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From: "Sverre Hamre" <sverre.hamre@gmail.com>
To: Dave Haywood <tla@oak.selfip.net>
Cc: Phil C <hpypenguin@yahoo.com>, Yeti <yeti@myhich.com>,
	Newbie Mailing List <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling Binutils 2.17
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:48:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2016d8d0808120248o7aaeff57r99c837df2048a874@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4896D5B8.2000505@oak.selfip.net>

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dave Haywood <tla@oak.selfip.net> wrote:
> 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
>

also on ubuntu sudo -i
then you are root user.

Sverre

>
> Dave.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-03 11:04 Problems compiling Binutils 2.17 Phil C
2008-08-04 10:11 ` Dave Haywood
2008-08-12  9:48   ` Sverre Hamre [this message]
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2008-08-03  6:20 Phil C

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