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resebek582

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Registered: 2025-03-24

Posts: 2

install from source, on xfce4-session-4.20.0 got error permission

This is the result for compiling :

make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/void/.experimental/lib/xfce4/session'
  /bin/sh ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c xfsm-shutdown-helper '/home/void/.experimental/lib/xfce4/session'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c xfsm-shutdown-helper /home/void/.experimental/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0/xfsm-shutdown-helper'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0/xfsm-shutdown-helper'
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/share/wayland-sessions'
/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/share/wayland-sessions’: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [Makefile:583: install-desktop_waylandDATA] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:921: install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/void/Downloads/desktop-enviorment/src/xfce4-session-4.20.0'
make: *** [Makefile:610: install-recursive] Error 1

I just wanna make clean enviorment not to touch the system-host for everthing. i tried to change the XSESSION_PREFIX, but still got the permission error. Any suggestion guys?, i also new for the forum, so nice forum. Thank you.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,815

Re: install from source, on xfce4-session-4.20.0 got error permission

Which configure or autogen parameters did you use? Or did you build with meson?

i tried to change the XSESSION_PREFIX, but still got the permission error.

How? What did you use?

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resebek582

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Registered: 2025-03-24

Posts: 2

Re: install from source, on xfce4-session-4.20.0 got error permission

My bad after changed the Makefile, i running configure. so is working as expected.