[Nut-upsdev] 2.8.3 build fail

gene heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Sun May 18 12:30:45 BST 2025


Jim, unpacked, tried the INSTALL procedure, first as me, failed due to 
perms error, then did "make clean" then prefaced that command line with 
sudo. Again died, perms error:

  make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
  /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/ups/include'
/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/ups’: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [Makefile:615: install-includeHEADERS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:739: install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make: *** [Makefile:1030: install-recursive] Error 1

Do I need to sudo everything on debian bookworm? Did that got instructs 
to sudo make install-as-root, failed:

install-as-root: Apply systemd enabled/disabled service presets
Failed to preset all units: Unit /run/systemd/transient/session-2.scope 
is transient or generated.
make: *** [Makefile:2198: install-as-root] Error 1

Next?

Thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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