I have a brand new centOS 7 VM that am trying to install Python 3 (currently 3.6.0) on. I am following a guide from Daniel Eriksson (https://danieleriksson.net/2017/02/08/how-to-install-latest-python-on-centos/)
but I'm running into an Pemission denied error when running the make && make altinstall command.
The last section of the error I'm getting is here:
gcc -pthread -c -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -I. -I./Include -fPIC -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Programs/_testembed.o ./Programs/_testembed.c
gcc -pthread -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib -Xlinker -export-dynamic -o Programs/_testembed Programs/_testembed.o -L. -lpython3.6m -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm
# Substitution happens here, as the completely-expanded BINDIR
# is not available in configure
sed -e "s,@EXENAME@,/usr/local/bin/python3.6m," < ./Misc/python-config.in >python-config.py
# Replace makefile compat. variable references with shell script compat. ones; ->
LC_ALL=C sed -e 's,\$(\([A-Za-z0-9_]*\)),\$\{\1\},g' < Misc/python-config.sh >python-config
# On Darwin, always use the python version of the script, the shell
# version doesn't use the compiler customizations that are provided
# in python (_osx_support.py).
if test `uname -s` = Darwin; then \
cp python-config.py python-config; \
fi
if test "no-framework" = "no-framework" ; then \
/bin/install -c python /usr/local/bin/python3.6m; \
else \
/bin/install -c -s Mac/pythonw /usr/local/bin/python3.6m; \
fi
/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/local/bin/python3.6m’: Permission denied
make: *** [altbininstall] Error 1
I don't usually work with Linux, so I'm not exactly sure where to look for or what to try next. Any help on this appreciated. Thank you
The issue is with the permission required when running the command to install the package.
Use
sudo make && sudo make altinstall
instead of:
sudo make && make altinstall