On Sunday 30 May 2004 7:55 pm, Jake wrote:
Attempting to install package below from SUSE 9 cds, Yast says:
------- kdelibs3-devel-3.1.4-24.i586.rpm failed rpm output: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/opt/kde3/ common_options;40b9edf5: cpio: mkdir failed - Permission denied. -------
In /etc the file kde3rc contains the following:
[Directories] prefixes=/etc/opt/kde3/
I also get "/etc/opt/kde3: Permission denied" when doing updatedb.
I don't have an /etc/opt/kde3, or at least I can't see it...
jake@linux:~> ls -ald /etc/opt drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2004-04-30 19:48 /etc/opt jake@linux:~> cd /etc/opt jake@linux:/etc/opt> ls /bin/ls: kde3: Permission denied gnome jake@linux:/etc/opt> sux Password: linux:/etc/opt # ls /bin/ls: kde3: Permission denied . .. gnome
Can anybody help explain this to me?
Dunno. But as you don't have an /etc/opt/kde3, my first stab at this would be to try making one [mkdir /etc/opt/kde3] and to expect to find that I couldn't because I was the wrong id or something. As the permissions I have on /etc/opt indicate it belongs to root and only the user [ie root can write entries], I would tend to think of trying the install as root. hth Vince Littler