[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

Larry Rosenman ler at lerctr.org
Fri Sep 20 21:40:29 CEST 2002


On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 14:38, Maria Garcia Suarez wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Many thanks for your reply. But I have a question...
> 
> --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:
> > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote:
> > 
> > > I uncompress it to /home/mailman-2.0.13, cd to
> > that
> > > directory and run (as root, as normal user I get
> > the
> > > same eror):
> > 
> >     You're trying to install Mailman into the same
> > directory that you've uncompressed it in.  That's
> > why you're getting errors.  Uncompress the sources
> > some place else (like /usr/local/src), and configure
> > it in there, make and install it from
> > there.  It will, by default, try to install in
> > /home/mailman...
> 
> What's exactly $prefix? The place where I uncompress
> the files or the place where the program will be
> installed?
> 
> Now I tried what you told me and I have the same
> problem.
> 
> 1 - I uncompressed to:
> /usr/local/src/mailman-2.0.13
> 
> 2 - I cd to that directory
> 
> 3 - I run:
> chgrp mailman .
> chmod a+rx,g+ws .
> 
> 4- I do:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/mailman-2.0.13
> make install
you want prefix to be /home/mailman It's where the FINAL STUFF winds
up..


> 
> But I get the same error :-(
> 
> What do I do wrong?
> 
> Thanks for your help! :-)
> 
> Kisses,
> 
> Maria G Suarez
> 
> 
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