# Re: git pull works remotely but not locally

- From: Ivan Uemlianin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:52 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7465763
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7465699/t.md

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Dear Hannes

Yes, you have pinpointed it.  I installed as root, but I thought I had followed the other instructions (using ./configure) and did

   # make configure
   # ./configure --prefix=/opt
   # make
   # make install


In any case, I have deleted everything and reinstalled properly.  Now git pull is working as it should.

Thank you all for your patience and help.

Best wishes

Ivan


On 27/05/2010 20:53, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>    
>> - I did configure with prefix=/opt
>> - odd thing: nothing was installed into /opt: it all went into /root (I
>> might have been root for the whole process, which I know is bad).  I
>> just cp'd everything over to /opt, and everything worked OK (until now).
>>      
> My guess is:
>
> - You built as root.
> - I don't know what went wrong with the command that involved prefix=/opt.
> - But when you finally build using 'make', it picked the default prefix, which
> is /root when you are root.
> - This hard-codes the libexec path to /root/libexec/git-core.
> - Even after you copy the stuff to /opt, git looks in /root/libexec/...
> - As a normal user you do not have access to /root, ergo, Permission denied.
>
> Rebuild as normal user with
>
>     make prefix=/opt
>
> and install as root with
>
>     make prefix=/opt install
>
> (Yes, prefix must be given also for 'make install'.)
>
> -- Hannes
>    


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