[rrd-users] Requesting help with glib install

[Marc Powell]

On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:23 AM, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

> Trying to install smokepipng, but obviously I need rrdtool
> first.  It's been a while since I did an install, and I'm
> running into problems with installing glib.  This is the error:
>
> Making install in po
> make[1]: Entering directory `/downloads/glib-2.0.7/po'
> if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \
>   .././mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share; \
> [snip]
> /bin/sh: .././mkinstalldirs: Permission denied

It looks like it's unable to create the directory '/usr/local/share'.  
Are you doing this as a user who has permissions to do so? Do you have  
other restrictions such that you couldn't do that (SELinux maybe?)

--
Marc