Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 3:21 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2021-06-17 06:09]:
> > In Emacs, when I issue the 'M-x TeX-auto-generate-global' command
> > after loading AUCTeX, the followng error will be triggered:
> >
> > TeX-auto-store: Opening output file: Permission denied,
> > /usr/local/var/auctex/amsppt.el
> >
> > Is it possible to enable the root privilege for executing the above
> > command?
>
> It seems like auctex wrote or wanted to write something in system's
> directory /usr/local/var/auctex/ but it could not.
>
> Instead of root privilege you should maybe verify that you have write
> permissions to that directory.
>
> Does directory exist? Verify if it is there.

You're right. The following commands will fix this problem:

$ sudo mkdir  /usr/local/var/auctex
$ sudo chown werner:werner /usr/local/var/auctex/

HY
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