[Zeek] make install fails on Ubuntu

Dominik Charousset dominik.charousset at corelight.com
Thu Jun 18 05:23:40 PDT 2020


> Running ubuntu 18.04 and I download zeek-3.1.4.
> 
> Ran ./configure && make no issues, when I ran make install,
> 
> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:47 (file):
>   file INSTALL cannot copy file "/home/mbaki/zeek-3.1.4/build/src/zeek" to
>   "/usr/local/zeek/bin/zeek".
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   cmake_install.cmake:138 (include)
> 
> 
> Makefile:85: recipe for target 'install' failed
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mbaki/zeek-3.1.4/build'
> Makefile:18: recipe for target 'install' failed
> make: *** [install] Error 2

Just to be sure: did you run make install as root? Otherwise, you’ll probably have no write permission to /usr/local.

    Dominik


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