Why do I get permission denied when I try use “make” to install something?

Question

I\'m trying to install something and it\'s throwing me an error: Permission denied when I try to run make on it.

I\'m not too fond of the unive

Answer 1

Giving us the whole error message would be much more useful. If it's for make install then you're probably trying to install something to a system directory and you're not root. If you have root access then you can run

sudo make install

or log in as root and do the whole process as root.