On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 22:15, Adam Cooper wrote: > > Has appeared when trying to make install both Wine and The Gimp. Both > programs get through all the first stages but fail late in this one. I > am su root for both of these. It's a pain this as it's stopping me from > getting the latest versions. What can I do about it? What is wrong? It really looks like you are not root. Are you sure your "su -" succeeded? Try running "id" - it should return "uid=0(root) gid=0(root)..." if you have successfully changed to the root user. The problem reported is that the "make install" is unable to create a symbolic link (like a shortcut) in the /usr/local/bin directory - this may also occur if the filesystem containing /usr/local/bin was mounted readonly (unlikely) or out of space. The "mount" and "df" commands (respectively) will show you if either of these problems exist. > > Thank you for any help. No problems - hope this helps. Cheers, Ben
