Yes, you get this error without the sudo:
ERROR : Could not escalate effective user privileges: Operation not permitted From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Robert Schmidt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 10:19 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [easybuild] singularity 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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90-580 14 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se
