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Manual installation is inaccurate #1115

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Gistbatch opened this issue May 17, 2024 · 1 comment
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Manual installation is inaccurate #1115

Gistbatch opened this issue May 17, 2024 · 1 comment
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The installation instructions for CMake contain a bug:
ln -s ${HOME}/bin/cmake/bin/cmake ${HOME}/bin cannot link

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The link should be set to a unique location such as /usr/bin.

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  1. Which version do you use? Provide branch and commit id. master, 972ab4c133e5684de8849ff1115f682385619764
  2. Which build settings do you use? Which compiler version do you use? gcc 11.4.0 on WSL
  3. On which machine does your problem occur? If on a cluster: Which modules are loaded? Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 WSL
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ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/<myhome>/bin/cmake': File exists
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@Gistbatch Gistbatch added the bug label May 17, 2024
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You can just ignore the ln command. The first command already moves the binary to $HOME/bin.
Feel free to open a PR with a fix, i.e. remove the link command.
Note: Usually you can not write to /usr/bin, so you have to install the files to your home directory.

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