started with openembedded

[Angus Ainslie]

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:41 +0200, Anas Alzouhbi wrote:
> Thank you for your recommandation, I'm a new user and programmer on
> Linux, could you help me how can I run my commands as normal user,
> with the problem of permission of creating directories.
> what do you mean start from scratch or do a chown on directories.
> Thank you for you help that I big it
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Angus Ainslie <nytowl at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:45 +0200, Anas Alzouhbi wrote:
> >> hello!
> >> I followed the instruction written in
> >> http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started,
> >> I arrived to this command git clone git://git.openembedded.net/openembedded
> >> but it shows this error:
> >> fatal: could not create work tree dir 'openembedded'.
> >> what must I do
> >>
> >
> > Hi Anas
> >
> > >From looking at some of your other mails you've been running some
> > commands as root. It's not necessary and dangerous. It's probably a
> > permission problem on the directory, so either start from scratch
> > somewhere else as a normal user or do a chown on the directories you're
> > working in.
> >
> > Angus
> >
> >

Please keep the thread on list

Google pointed out a few links

http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_newbie_help_documentation
http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_started

Angus