pacman root file permissions.

babakott · 2011-08-15 15:01:20

I am wondering if I did something wrong in the initial Arch Linux install.

Just about every time I use pacman to install a package I have to go track down and fix file permissions so I can run the program as a user. Is this normally how things are done? Or am I doing something wrong?

I use pacman with sudo, because it will not work otherwise. So I use sudo pacman -S <package> OR sudo pacman -U <aur package> after using makepkg.

Thanks.

karol · 2011-08-15 15:05:18

Any apps in particular?
To answer your question: no, this doesn't sound right.

Last edited by karol (2011-08-15 15:07:45)

babakott · 2011-08-15 15:07:13

chromium, xfburn, and firefox to name three.

karol · 2011-08-15 15:08:09

And what is the error you get?

babakott · 2011-08-15 15:10:36

permission denied errors. I have to chown or chmod the executables to run them. Also my ~/.config dir was owned by root, had to chown that.

Inxsible · 2011-08-15 15:16:19

babakott wrote:

I use pacman with sudo, because it will not work otherwise.

pacman isn't supposed to work otherwise.

but the installed packages shouldn't need sudo.

tomk · 2011-08-15 15:19:33

Binary executables are typically installed with root:root ownership and 755 permissions.

What are you seeing on your system (before chown/chmod, of course)?

babakott · 2011-08-15 15:22:36

Running out to work. Will take my laptop and post the info when I can.
Thanks.

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#1 2011-08-15 15:01:20

pacman root file permissions.

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Re: pacman root file permissions.

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