Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sandbox access violations while running matlab binary installer

[Alan McKinnon]

On 31/03/2014 20:25, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to create an ebuild to install matlab MCR on gentoo.
> The installer InstallShileld try to create directory /root/InstallShield ;-)
> mkdir is run by java binary that try this. So I have no access to change it.
> There is no option to provide InstallShield it's relative install path.
> I can provide matlab's install path and other options, but this made
> permanent /root/InstallShield
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Kfir
>

As pointed out in -dev, let's first establish if the installer really
wants to write to /root or if it's actually ${HOME}

Do you get the identical error if you run the installer as a regular user?

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Alan McKinnon
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