install.sh: Recommend using sudo on error.

Show error message that the user shall try running this script with sudo
in case write permissions are missing. Implement proposal of comment
https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3194#issuecomment-245376993

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Stephan Kulla <git.mail@kulla.me>
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Stephan Kulla 2016-09-08 10:28:21 +02:00
parent f00b8d58ec
commit 81e40de5ee

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@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
bin=ipfs
binpaths="/usr/local/bin /usr/bin"
# This variable contains a nonzero length string in case the script fails
# because of missing write permissions.
is_write_perm_missing=""
# this script is currently brain dead.
# it merely tries two locations.
# in the future maybe use value of $PATH.
@ -11,8 +15,21 @@ for binpath in $binpaths; do
if mv -t "$binpath" "$bin" 2> /dev/null; then
echo "Moved $bin to $binpath"
exit 0
else
if [ -d "$binpath" -a ! -w "$binpath" ]; then
is_write_perm_missing=1
fi
fi
done
echo "cannot install $bin in one of the directories $binpaths"
echo "We cannot install $bin in one of the directories $binpaths"
if [ -n "$is_write_perm_missing" ]; then
echo "It seems that we do not have the necessary write permissions."
echo "Perhaps try running this script as a privileged user:"
echo
echo " sudo $0"
echo
fi
exit 1