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sudo make install: permission denied

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Mar 15, 202619104 views
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I have a most annoying question about building from sources. I've searched for an answer for a long while and nowhere can I find one... I've compiled software from sources before and this just baffled me. So I am trying to install python 2.7.2 from sources. I can do a successful , also seems to run…

Error Output

make: stat: GNUmakefile: Permission denied
make: stat: makefile: Permission denied
make: stat: Makefile: Permission denied
make: stat: install: Permi…

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Fix for: sudo make install: permission denied

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I believe what you are hitting is actually an NFS policy called "root squash". It's not uncommon for users to need root on a particular host, but you don't want them to have the same sort of privileges on the shared NFS volumes. Thus, giving local r…

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