Building Maxima on Ubuntu running in Sun Virtual Box

Hi Rich, 

Ubuntu comes with a special user/administrator concept: The user who
installed Ubuntu (the first user; I guess you have only one user on your
Ubuntu inside of the virtual box) has no administrator rights after
login, but he/she can get admin (root) rights by using the command
'sudo' for shell commands and 'gksu' for starting a GUI application. 

E.g.
volker at uvw:~$ gksu gedit &
starts the editor with admin rights,

volker at uvw:~$ sudo cp myfile /root
copies myfile from my home directory to the admin's home directory,
where the user 'volker' normally has no access.

For installing Maxima you need sudo rights as well:

./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
make clean

Hope that helps
Volker
 

Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 21:19 -0500 schrieb Richard Hennessy:
> Thank,
> 
> Yes you are right, I think.  The directories have permission problems.  I cannot copy files to many folders.  I am new 
> to Ubuntu or any Linux so I am at the bottom of the learning curve for it.  I will try to provide more information as I 
> try to figure this out.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Leo Butler" <l.butler at ed.ac.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:10 AM
> To: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>
> Cc: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Building Maxima on Ubuntu running in Sun Virtual Box
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Richard Hennessy wrote:
> >
> > < Hi List,
> > <
> > < I am having some trouble with ./configure.  Is there any problem with running
> > < Ubuntu on Sun Virtual Box?  I am getting errors about being unable to create
> > < files while building Maxima.  Access denied type errors.  I am running Sun
> > < Virtual Box on Windows 7.
> >
> > Rich,
> > You've not provided us with enough information to properly diagnose the
> > problem. However, my guess is that you are trying to build Maxima in a
> > directory that is not owned by your user. 'ls -l'  will tell you
> > who owns what.
> >
> > Leo
> >
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