started with openembedded

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Angus Ainslie wrote:
> 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
> 

This is from the gumstix site but it might be useful. Hope it's of some
help anyhow.

http://www.gumstix.net/User/view/Build-system-overview/Hello-world-tutorial/110.html