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skorpan

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Registered: 2007-11-09

Posts: 81

Permissions warning with tupac

I'm getting this permissions warning everytime I install something using tupac.  Is this a problem for anyone else?  How do I "fix" it?  I use quotation marks around fix, because /tmp works just as well.

==> Building and installing package
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/abs': Permission denied
==> WARNING: Unable to write in /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/<package> directory. Using /tmp directory

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: Permissions warning with tupac

this problem is yaourt related. There is nothing to fix, since there's nothing wrong with it. If you want, you can change the permissions of the directory /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild so that your user can create folders there.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Permissions warning with tupac

yeah, the best way to install a package, with manually downloading and using makepkg, as frontends does in the background.

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