[MPlayer-users] problem with make install

[Patrick.Debois]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Shikha sharma wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> I am new to both ...mplayer and linux.
> i am able to use './configure' and 'make command'
> but while using 'make install' i get the folllowing error...
> 
Error tells it all...:

the user you are running does not have permissions. Probably you did not 
run it as root. 

If you don't have these privileges, you can install it f.i. in your 
homedir using ./configure --prefix=$HOME; make ; make install



> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libdha'
> mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
> install -m 755 -s -p libdha.so.0.1  /usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1
> install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1':
> Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libdha'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/vidix'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/vidix/drivers'
> mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/mplayer/vidix
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/mplayer': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/vidix/drivers'
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/vidix'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> can you please help me out of it...
> 
> Warm regards,
> Shikha Sharma
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