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Chloekpb
December 18th, 2009, 11:46 PM
yea im trying to install libnet on my cpu (iMAC OSx 10.6) and this is the error that i get at the end



make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/include/libnet
mkdir /usr/include/libnet
mkdir: /usr/include/libnet: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [install-libnetincludeHEADERS] Error 1
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


any ideas

Some Penguin
December 19th, 2009, 12:10 AM
Ask yourself whether the account you're using to execute whatever command you just run actually has the privileges to create the directory mentioned in the error message. If not, ask yourself which account actually does.

Chloekpb
December 22nd, 2009, 08:17 PM
IM in my admin acount im the only user on this cpu nad i dont know what other permissons i would need