[SOLVED] permission denied when trying to install aurora

[wintermute0]

I'm trying to install the Aurora engine for themes on Ubuntu 9, and I'm pretty new at all this... so sorry if this error message is a little long... it goes through the installation, then it gives me an error message, here it is:

Now run make.
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/preston/aurora-1.5'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines"
/bin/bash ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'libaurora.la' '/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libaurora.la'
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libaurora.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libaurora.so
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libaurora.so': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install-engineLTLIBRARIES] Error 1

[wintermute0]

anyone? this is really annoying me.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

If you are using KDE in Ubuntu 9.x then I would suggest you to install it using Package Manager instead of manual installation.

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kwin-style-aurorae

You should wait for a while before bumping your thread. Sometimes, it takes day or two to before you get any reply in your thread. Don't bump after just one hour.

[wintermute0]

Hi and Welcome !

If you are using KDE in Ubuntu 9.x then I would suggest you to install it using Package Manager instead of manual installation.

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kwin-style-aurorae

You should wait for a while before bumping your thread. Sometimes, it takes day or two to before you get any reply in your thread. Don't bump after just one hour.

Alright, sorry. I'm new to these forums; I don't know how much user activity it has.

How do I know if I'm using KDE?

[devils casper]

Check these screen shots. Gnome and KDE.


There is a lot of user activity here but it depends on how many members checked your thread and know solution of your problem.

[wintermute0]

Then, I'm running Gnome... but I just installed aurorae and it seems to be working, but all the themes that require aurora are still giving me the message "this theme may not look like it's intended because the gtk+ theme engine "aurora" is not installed."

[devils casper]

That package is for KDE only. aurora gtk+ theme engine is not available in sources and you have to install it manually.

Check this link and follow installation instructions.
Install build-essential package before that.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

[wintermute0]

Hmm, I thought that's what I was doing before... but I did just as the instructions said this time and it worked perfectly, thanks for all the help.

I think this problem is solved.

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.