Uday S Reddy at 11:41 +0100 on May 18, 2011: > r...@knighten.org writes: > > > I downloaded vm-8.2.0a.tgz and untarred it without issue, but the directory > > vm-8.2.0a and everything in it were owned by 1004:513. After fixing that I > > discovered that the configure file could not be executed. I solved that by > > using "sh ~/configure". > > I have no idea why any of these should happen. I just downloaded it and did > a build on a CentOS machine, and it didn't run into any of these problems. > I can't do `make install' to system directories on this departmental > machine. But using my home directory as the `--prefix' option, everything > got installed fine. I am attaching the output from `make install' below. > > Perhaps, other Linux users on the list can share their experience? > Ulrich, are you online?
It's owned by 1004:513 because you ran tar as root for some reason. This is expected. Why do you care that it's 1004:513 rather than some other arbitrary ownership (0:0 may be what you were expecting I presume)? If you always want 0:0, then use a tar option to enforce that. When I use gtar or bsdtar to extract the tarball, configure has execute permissions whether I extract as root or a regular user. > > But attempting to use the new version of VM I > > immediately found that it could not use qp-decode - the error message being > > that qp-decode could not be found. In a shell I determined that using the > > rejected path given in the error message I could run qp-decode. After a > > small > > amount of time trying to locate the problem I simply moved all the relevant > > programs to /usr/local/bin, changed and recompiled .vm and that problem > > went > > away. But now with any multipart mime program with a plain text part > > (us-ascii or utf-8) the plain text would simply not be displayed. Spending > > some time reading the NEWS and inspecting my .vm was no productive so I > > simply > > reverted to version 8.1.0 and all is again well. > > Note that you don't need to do `make install' to use VM. The INSTALL file > gives you instructions on how to use it directly from the directory where > you build VM. > > Cheers, > Uday qp-decode and friends installed fine for me on linux and freebsd. As Uday said, you can install as a regular user if you use 'configure --prefix=/some/where/writable/by/user'. But 'sudo make install' with default configure settings worked as expected (by default installing to <prefix>/bin). As far as your multipart mime email issue, is it multipart/alternative? If you think there is a real bug, consider reporting it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm
