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

The problem is frequently with 'secure' setup of mountpoints, such as /tmp

If they are mounted noexec (check with cat /etc/mtab and or sudo mount) then there is no permission to execute any binaries or build scripts from within the (temporary) folder.

E.g. to remount temporarily:

 sudo mount -o remount,exec /tmp

Or to change permanently, remove noexec in /etc/fstab