Angus Ainslie wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:41 +0200, Anas Alzouhbi wrote: >> Thank you for your recommandation, I'm a new user and programmer on >> Linux, could you help me how can I run my commands as normal user, >> with the problem of permission of creating directories. >> what do you mean start from scratch or do a chown on directories. >> Thank you for you help that I big it >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Angus Ainslie <nyt...@openmoko.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:45 +0200, Anas Alzouhbi wrote: >>>> hello! >>>> I followed the instruction written in >>>> http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started, >>>> I arrived to this command git clone git://git.openembedded.net/openembedded >>>> but it shows this error: >>>> fatal: could not create work tree dir 'openembedded'. >>>> what must I do >>>> >>> Hi Anas >>> >>> >From looking at some of your other mails you've been running some >>> commands as root. It's not necessary and dangerous. It's probably a >>> permission problem on the directory, so either start from scratch >>> somewhere else as a normal user or do a chown on the directories you're >>> working in. >>> >>> Angus >>> >>> > > Please keep the thread on list > > Google pointed out a few links > > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_newbie_help_documentation > http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_started >
This is from the gumstix site but it might be useful. Hope it's of some help anyhow. http://www.gumstix.net/User/view/Build-system-overview/Hello-world-tutorial/110.html _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community