Re: Opam installation woes

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Aug 2012, at 15:34, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to follow the instructions on the mirage wiki to install 
> opam, but have had little success so far. I'm installing on a fresh 12.04 
> Ubuntu system, and the problem I'm currently getting is in installing re 1.0 
> - it's trying to create the directory /usr/local/share/doc. Has anyone had 
> this problem, or some insight into how to fix it?

not had that specifically, but as is usual for an osx/homebrew user, /usr/local 
is writeable by me (ie., no root privs required) -- possibly this assumption 
has crept in although it doesn't usually hold on linux systems?

(more a comment than any help i'm afraid :)

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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