[mythtv-users] installing MythTV 0.23 as non-root - almost

agraham agraham at g-b.net
Fri Jun 4 02:21:11 UTC 2010


On 04/06/10 03:08, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 4 June 2010 11:29, agraham<agraham at g-b.net>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I like to install the entire MythTV build as a standard user (e.g. mtv),
>> therefore when building I use something like:
>>
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mtv
>>
>>
>> With the new 0.23 version, I get a permission denied error when doing the
>> "make install" (everything builds fine)
>>
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/share/perl5'
>> mkdir /usr/local/share/perl5: Permission denied at
>> /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 483
>
> I've only ever compiled mythtv as non-root, installing it in its own
> directory; yet, I've never seen this issue before, not even with the
> python or perl bindings..
>
> Jean-Yves

It happens when it tries to installed the perl bindings:

It seems to get it's install config from the defaults in:

/usr/lib64/perl5/Config.pm

so how do we override this ?


Albert.



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