I am using centos 6 for which I am not having sudo access.I have a user account and have full access for that account. Is there a way to install packages/softwares for a particular user in Centos.
Just copy the executables into your home directory. You may also add it to your PATH variable. Many people has a ~/bin directory for this kind of stuffs.
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I'm building a .deb installer using install4j and I tried adding a Desktop icon to the user's desktop, but it doesn't work because dpkg requires sudo so it tries to copy the icon to /root/Desktop which is incorrect and doesn't exist.
We also have some application data that we want to purge on uninstall and I believe it is similarly not being deleted because it is running as sudo.
I do not have elevation set for unix, I believe this is a requirement of dpkg.
The user home directory of the original user is not available. The files in the user home directory should be created by the application itself, see
Debian packaging: deploying files to the user home directory
I'm configuring software on my first web server, so I am not totally familiar with how everything works, but here is the basic problem:
I have purchased hosting on a web server that runs on CentOS. I have been able to install postgreSQL via an install process that the hoster provides, so that my database will be local only to my home folder. That is working fine.
However, I am trying to install a postgreSQL extension called PostGIS. I have tried to compile it from source on my web server, but it now requires an additional library called GEOS. I downloaded the library from http://download/osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.6.2.tar.bz2, extracted it, and used make install to run it.
Now the problem is that it fails due to this error:
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory /usr/local/include/geos: Permission Denied
It's not really a surprise, because it is trying to make a new directory in the system root folders, rather than within my personal home folder, which is the only one I have access to. I can't think of any other way around this. Am I just unable to install this library? Or can I "trick" it somehow into installing in in my home directory, where I have full admin rights?
I think You need to execute a command with root user privileges.
Because, make install command need root user privileges.
Like,
sudo make install
or with root user. Like,
sudo su
make install
I have installed Bitnami Xampp on linux mint, it is installed inside /opt/
The application is unable to access(Write/Read) files and hence not able to work on it.
Any Solution Please........
Thank You
It is simple access issue. So I need to give read write access to folder and file using chmod command:-
--$ sudo chmod -R 777 opt
I have to admit that I am don't really know Xampp but with the command you mentioned above you changed the the access rights for the top level directory /opt and thru using 777 you gave basically all rights to everbody using your system. If Xampp now tries to write something, it of course can because you gave it the rights (like to anyone else).
The -R option you used in the chmod-command above means, that you have changed the access rights for all subdirectories of /opt also (recursively).
I would recommend that you change this back to the original access rights for /opt and, if you need, just change the access rights for the directory where Xampp is placed. Then Xampp should also work because it can read an write in it's own subdirectory and there won't be any harm for or from other applications from /opt because they can't access /opt/Xampp and Xampp can't access their directories.
After the previous setting
--$ sudo chmod -R 777 opt Xampp is not working with following error
PhpMyAdmin “Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!”
Then I followed PhpMyAdmin "Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!" and now working fine...
Thank god it saved me from switching back to Windows. That I hate.....
I have two accounts on a linux server, one with sudo power, one without.
When I install packages using the account with sudo power, it all works fine.
Then I logged in using another account without sudo power, it shows me the library not found.
Is there a way to solve this like changing the permission of the library? or install globally?
I have to use the account since the all the apps are running on it.
So after I checked my R packages location, I found all the new packages were installed under my personal directory. After I move it all to /usr/share/R/library it got solved.
I am developing with Xampp for Linux and Tomcat (similar to Xampp on Windows). Many programs like /IDEA, Tomcat and Xampp are recommended to be installed under /opt Now I have heard that it is not recommended to run services as root, but on Ubuntu (I am using this) unpacking any directory to /opt implies that it belongs to root owner and root group. This may be specific to Xampp as per the instructions on their Linux page:
Step 2: Installation After downloading simply type in the following commands:
Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root:
su
Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt
Warning: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work.
Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.
That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory.
* Step 3: Start To start XAMPP simply call this command:
/opt/lampp/lampp start
Placing it here implies that Apache must be run as root as one is only able to run it with sudo on Ubuntu.
This may be an issue specific to Ubuntu. Is it? Because Xampp is a development tool I posted this here as I am more likely to find an appropriate answer here from developers who use it on Ubuntu (and other Linux systems). I would appreciate any information on if the same problem occurs on other systems, I notice my production environment has Tomcat installed in /opt too, but belongs to tomcat: tomcat
The question here is how to get around this for all tools under /opt, because even though Xampp may not be the tool for my needs, I still want to place Tomcat under /opt to replicate my production environment and the same thing will surely happen unless this is just a Ubuntu issue?
Ubuntu and some other distributions differ to the general Linux principle where the account that you create upon install of the OS is added to specific groups that can be viewed with the following command:
groups username
You will notice that root is not amongst these. It is also not possible to log in or su to the root account. sudo is most likey a command that has been granted permission to be used from other accounts so I imagine the 'sudo' command has a file permission of 775 for user: root:root
Thus launching services from /opt' does not run them asroot`