Why do I get permission denied when I try use make to install something

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I m trying to install something and it s throwing me an error  Permission denied when I try to run make on it   I m not too fond of the universal rules of unix linux and not too fond of user rights either   My best guess is that the user I m logged in as does not have the privileges to run make commands  but hopefully it s something else that s not permitting me to install   Why do I get Permission denied and what should I check or configure in order to attempt permission be granted    EDIT  Error Message   gcc -I  -O3 -o pp-inspector  pp-inspector c make  execvp  gcc  Permission denied make   pp-inspector  Error 127  ignored  gcc -I  -O3 -c tis-vnc c -DLIBOPENSSL -DLIBOPENSSLNEW -DLIBIDN -DHAVE PR29 H -DLIBMYSQLCLIENT -DLIBPOSTGRES -DHAVE MATH H -I usr include mysql make  execvp  gcc  Permission denied make       tis-vnc o  Error 127

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Execute chmod 777 -R scripts   it worked fine for me

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Giving us the whole error message would be much more useful  If it s for make install then you re probably trying to install something to a system directory and you re not root  If you have root access then you can run  sudo make install   or log in as root and do the whole process as root

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The problem is frequently with  secure  setup of mountpoints  such as  tmp  If they are mounted noexec  check with cat  etc mtab and or sudo mount  then there is no permission to execute any binaries or build scripts from within the  temporary  folder   E g  to remount temporarily    sudo mount -o remount exec  tmp   Or to change permanently  remove noexec in  etc fstab

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On many source packages  e g  for most GNU software   the building system may know about the DESTDIR make variable  so you can often do    make install DESTDIR  tmp myinst   sudo cp -va  tmp myinst      The advantage of this approach is that make install  don t need to run as root  so you cannot end up with files compiled as root  or root-owned files in your build tree

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I had a very similar error message as you  although listing a particular file     make make  execvp     HoughLineExtractor houghlineextractor hh  Permission denied make          HoughLineAccumulator houghlineaccumulator o  Error 127    sudo make make  execvp     HoughLineExtractor houghlineextractor hh  Permission denied make          HoughLineAccumulator houghlineaccumulator o  Error 127   In my case  I forgot to add a trailing slash to indicate continuation of the line as shown     LINEDETECTOR OBJECTS           HoughLineAccumulator houghlineaccumulator hh     lt -- missing slash          HoughLineExtractor houghlineextractor hh   Hope that helps someone else who lands here from a search engine

[linux] Why do I get permission denied when I try use "make" to install something?

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