[Okular-devel] Fwd: need guidance

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun Sep 28 15:22:37 UTC 2014


El Diumenge, 28 de setembre de 2014, a les 20:50:22, Palash Kulshrestha va 
escriure:
> Thanks for such a quick response Albert.
> 
> There seems to be some permissions problem when i don't use sudo with make
> install. It gives the error
> ...
> ...
> [100%] Built target doc-handbook
> [100%] Built target doc-manpage-man-okular
> Install the project...
> -- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
> -- Up-to-date:
> /home/palash/Documents/programs/okular/include/okular/core/action.h
> CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:44 (FILE):
>   file INSTALL cannot set permissions on
>   "/home/palash/Documents/programs/okular/include/okular/core/action.h"
> 
> 
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> 
> It runs smoothly with sudo make install. So i think it won't be much of a
> problem in future?

It is fine, i guess the problem is you originally installed in your own home 
with sudo and now the files belong to root, you can remove all the install 
folder and do it again without sudo or keep using sudo, that's not a problem.

> 
> For the major error of undefined symbol :-
> 
> You were absolutely correct in pointing out the definition of KDEDIRS was
> not persisting in the shell. So I had to add to ~/.bashrc file following :-
> #adding environment variable KDEDIRS
> export KDEDIRS=/home/palash/Documents/programs/okular:$(kde4-config
> --prefix)
> 
> It works now. Now I will start playing around with code to work on junior
> jobs.

Nice :)

Cheers,
  Albert


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