I think it needs sudo to change permissions to setuid on the binary so it can do the chroot stuff it does.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:17 AM Åke Sandgren <ake.sandg...@hpc2n.umu.se> wrote: > Or just ignore that the instruction say that it needs sudo, it doesn't. > > That's just (with ~99% probability) stupid instructions, that want to > install in a directory where users normaly don't have access. > > Using easybuild (or when buliding by hand) you should NEVER install as > root or using sudo! > > On 08/16/2016 04:09 PM, Jack Perdue wrote: > > Howdy Todd, > > > > You could try: > > > > preinstallopts = "sudo " # be sure to have a trailing space in the > quotes > > > > > -- > Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden > Internet: a...@hpc2n.umu.se Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-580 14 > Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se >
