Successfully build from source, but installation "Error copying" ...

[jiapei100]

I successfully built qt source qt-everywhere-src-5.11.1, following the instructions at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-building.html.

However, when I tried to install Qt by sudo checkinstall, I got the following error messages:

Error copying ....../qt-everywhere-src-5.11.1/qtbase/src/platformheaders/xcbfunctions/qxcbwindowfunctions.h to /usr/local/Qt-5.11.1/include/QtPlatformHeaders/qxcbwindowfunctions.h: Cannot create /usr/local/Qt-5.11.1/include/QtPlatformHeaders/qxcbwindowfunctions.h for output
Makefile:1230: recipe for target 'install_targ_headers' failed

How to install Qt from source?

Cheers
Pei

[SGaist]

Hi,

Since you used /usr/local as prefix you need root privilege to create files there.

[jiapei100]

@SGaist Hi, I actually was using
sudo checkinstall

[SGaist]

@jiapei100 said in Successfully build from source, but installation "Error copying" ...:

sudo checkinstall

What is checkinstall ?

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@jiapei100 said in Successfully build from source, but installation "Error copying" ...:

checkinstall

that "command" doesn't show up in any location in the documentation you pointed to. Are you meaning:

make install

(or using sudo make install if the install prefix needs root privileges)