[MPlayer-users] problem with make install

[Eric Windisch]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:09, Shikha sharma wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> I am new to both ...mplayer and linux.
> i am able to use './configure' and 'make command'
> but while using 'make install' i get the folllowing error...
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sharmshi/MPlayer-0.90pre10/libdha'
> mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
> install -m 755 -s -p libdha.so.0.1  /usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1
> install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libdha.so.0.1':
> Permission denied

Generally non-root users do not have permission to write to
/usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/bin/.

If you wish to install mplayer to /usr/local/, you must be root.

You could also install mplayer to your home directory if you don't have
root on the machine, just path configure the --prefix= option for the
directory you wish to install to.

-- 
Eric Windisch