[ardour-users] OT: jack install problem for Ardour

[Them]

Jim Dory wrote:

> I thought I would try to install ardour on Suse 8.2 but when I'm trying 
> the latest tarball of jack-audio-connection-kit I have a problem. First, 
> the faq on their page says to do:
> sh ./autogen.sh in the untarred directory. I get a no such file or 
> directory with that command.

The FAQ is incorrect, I think. autogen.sh is only if you are installing 
something extracted from CVS.  You should just be able to do:

./configure
make
make install
(the last needs to be done as root)

> Next, I try a ./configure and get this:
> ./configure: line 1150: config.log: Permission denied

...

> Perhaps it is a simple permissions problem. I can configure jack as 
> root, but I get that error as a user.

Did you extract the tarball as root or as a different user than what you 
are building with?  You ultimately need to be root to install anyway...

-- Brett