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[erbad]

Dear all,

The installation and building of complexes++ shown here creates ownership conflicts when running sudo make install. A solution I found was to add sudo before each command (even git clone, and change the ownership of the complexespp folder afterwards.

Could you suggest an alternative way without the sudo commands?

Thank you,
Davide

[berenger-eu]

Dear @erbad it is unclear to me what it the real issue. Please could you point to me which of the following steps is invalid?
Running make install will put files into /usr therefore, the root privilege is required.
This is why sudo make install must be used.
If someone does not want to be root, one can use cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/your/path .. to change the path, for example cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/x/complexespp-install .. (executed in the build dir) and then make install (without sudo).
Doing so it is possible to install in a dir with regular user privileges.
Would that solve your problem?