Building Maxima on Ubuntu running in Sun Virtual Box

Thx,

I will look into this user/admin issue.  I am the only user setup in Ubuntu.

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From: "Volker van Nek" <volkervannek at googlemail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:07 AM
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rich.hennessy at verizon.net>; "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] 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
>>
>>
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>> 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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