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windtalker

Member

Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Having probs following the makepkg inst. in Wiki

I'm on this page of the Wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

I'm at the step of the insructions that states:

groupadd abs
gpasswd -a $USER abs
chown root:abs /var/abs/local
chmod 775 /var/abs/local

I have no probs with groupadd and gpassword.
When I try to chown however I get:

[root@Arch bob]# chown root:abs /var/abs/local
chown: cannot access `/var/abs/local': No such file or directory

/var/abs/local does exist alhough it's Local rather than local and I've tried reflecting that in the path and gotten the same response.

Is there something wrong with the command or am I not comprehending something as I've read every line of the tutorial several times as well as went back and repeated everything a half dozen times now to ensure I didn't overlook something.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Having probs following the makepkg inst. in Wiki

I don't have a /var/abs/local directory so I'm assuming that it's not there by default. Try creating it before running these commands.

BTW, you don't need to build packages in  /var/abs/local . I build them in a directory in my home directory.