Re: Package Install Errors

[Ron Crummett]

In that case, I have run it again and the temp directory has full read/write/execute permissions.

-Ron

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:35 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On 31-Aug-2009, Ron Crummett wrote:

| Okay -
|
| In regards to the earlier question, I am running Ubuntu Jaunty.
|
| 2009/8/30 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
|
|
| > The pkg install command use temporary directory to extract a package,
| >  carry out configureation and
| > make binaries.
| >
| > I suspect that your temporary directory does allow 'w' attribution.
| > Please type tmpnam at the octave prompt
| > octave>tmpnam
| >
| > and get the name the temporary directory name
| >
| > and confirm the attribution of the temporary directory
| > octave>ls -l (tmp diretoryname)/..
| >
|  >> tmpnam
| ans = /tmp/oct-SZWwgP
|
| >> ls -l /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/..
| ls: cannot access /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/..: No such file or directory
| error: ls: command exited abnormally with status 2
| error: called from:
| error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.0/m/miscellaneous/ls.m at line 66, column 2
|
| For what it's worth, every time I type tmpnam I get a different temporary
| directory.  Don't know if that helps or not, but I figure I'll mention it.

It's supposed to be a file name, not a directory name, and it should
be different each time.  It should not exist because tmpnam does not
create the file, it just generates a name.

jwe