On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mick wrote: > Hi all, > > I've lost some software I've just installed. It exited the installation with > a "maninstall" error. everything else went smoothly. > > The problem is I have no idea how to use the program and the docs aren't > really aimed at the linux totally inept.
> Installing man pages.../usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file > `/usr/local/man/man1': No such file or directory > make: *** [maninstall] Error. maninstall will be a routine in the Makefile. For some reason it looks to want to create /usr/local/man/man1 directory and is unable to do. Were you running this as root or as a user? Check the permissions on /usr/local, /usr/local/man, /usr/local/man/man1 or try running as root. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
