Readers, Tried to install xpdf, but failed as below. Looks that there is a reference to create a directory 'mkdir -p /home/lee...' without permission. Any suggestions please? [manjaro linux package manager command:] yaourt xpdf 1 extra/poppler 0.41.0-1 [installed: 0.39.0-1] PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 2 aur/flaxpdf-git 20152609-1 (1) A simple FLTK PDF viewer 3 aur/mingw-w64-poppler 0.40.0-1 (5) PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 (mingw-w64) 4 aur/poppler-git 0.33.0.r4409.11f117c-2 (1) PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 5 aur/poppler-lcdfilter 0.39.0-2 (0) PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 6 aur/poppler-minimal 0.33.0-1 (1) PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0 (minimal non-X version) 7 aur/xpdf 3.04-4 (100) Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files ==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3) ==> ------------------------------------------------------- ==> 7 ==> Downloading xpdf PKGBUILD from AUR... x .SRCINFO x 02-permissions.patch x PKGBUILD x desktop x install Also depends on the libpaper package. Done With my version of Pacman v4.2.1 - libalpm v9.0.1, the pkgbuild fails with permission errors. Basically everything in build() needs moved to package(). Here is my version that works (I think)but then there is an error with the install file (not sure what to do) but at least it tries to work. # Maintainer: Hyacinthe Cartiaux hyacinthe.cartiaux at free.fr # Contributor: Gaetan Bisson bisson at archlinux.org # Contributor: tobias tobias at archlinux.org # Contributor: Sarah Hay sarahhay at mb.sympatico.ca # Xpdf-nodrm: Mark Pustjens pustjens at dds.nl pkgname=xpdf pkgver=3.04 pkgrel=3 pkgdesc='Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files' url='http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/' license=('GPL2') arch=('i686' 'x86_64') depends=('lesstif' 'gsfonts' 'libxt' 'libpaper') optdepends=('poppler: tools that used to be included in xpdf' 'desktop-file-utils: for desktop environments') source=("ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver%_*}.tar.gz" '02-permissions.patch' 'desktop') sha1sums=('b9b1dbb0335742a09d0442c60fd02f4f934618bd' 'f192728680aaf575c178ce25c4aefa92e798a879' '17ebbfe457cb92e97b12b7362e8ce961526012d9') install=install backup=('etc/xpdfrc') #build() { # cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver%_*}" # # patch -p1 -i ../02-permissions.patch # # sed -i 's:/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts:/usr/share/fonts/Type1:' xpdf/GlobalParams.cc # sed -i 's:times-medium-r-normal--16:times-medium-r-normal--14:' xpdf/XPDFViewer.cc # FS#14217 # # ./configure \ # --prefix=/usr \ # --sysconfdir=/etc \ # --mandir=/usr/share/man \ # --enable-multithreaded \ # --enable-wordlist \ # --with-freetype2-library=/usr/lib \ # --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \ # --x-includes=/usr/include \ # --with-Xm-library=/usr/lib \ # --with-Xm-includes=/usr/include \ # # make #} package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver%_*}" patch -p1 -i ../02-permissions.patch sed -i 's:/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts:/usr/share/fonts/Type1:' xpdf/GlobalParams.cc sed -i 's:times-medium-r-normal--16:times-medium-r-normal--14:' xpdf/XPDFViewer.cc # FS#14217 ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --enable-multithreaded \ --enable-wordlist \ --with-freetype2-library=/usr/lib \ --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \ --x-includes=/usr/include \ -with-Xm-library=/usr/lib \ --with-Xm-includes=/usr/include \ make cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver%_*}" make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install install -Dm644 ../desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/xpdf.desktop" install -Dm644 xpdf/xpdfIcon.xpm "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/xpdf.xpm" # stuff provided by poppler for tool in pdfdetach pdffonts pdfimages pdfinfo pdftoppm pdftops pdftotext; do rm "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${tool}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/${tool}.1" done } Forgot the install error configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-wordlist mkdir -p /home/lee/Downloads/xpdf/pkg/xpdf/usr/bin /usr/bin/install -c xpdf/xpdf /home/lee/Downloads/xpdf/pkg/xpdf/usr/bin/xpdf /usr/bin/install: cannot stat ‘xpdf/xpdf’: No such file or directory Makefile:85: recipe for target 'install' failed make: *** [install] Error 1 == ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... I can't reproduce. I will not move the content of build() inside package(), it's against the guidelines and it is probably not the source of this problem. xpdf 3.04-4 (2015-07-30 08:57) ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! ) ==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. Unable to read PKGBUILD