Trouble installing

[swingcake]

gawd@tushbox:~/Downloads$ tar -xvzf pipes.sh-1.3.0.tar.gz
pipes.sh-1.3.0/
pipes.sh-1.3.0/.github/
pipes.sh-1.3.0/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
pipes.sh-1.3.0/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
pipes.sh-1.3.0/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/BUG.md
pipes.sh-1.3.0/CONTRIBUTING.rst
pipes.sh-1.3.0/LICENSE
pipes.sh-1.3.0/Makefile
pipes.sh-1.3.0/README.rst
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t0.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t1.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t2.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t3.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t4.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t5.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t6.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t7.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t8.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.t9.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/i/pipes.tc.png
pipes.sh-1.3.0/pipes.sh
pipes.sh-1.3.0/pipes.sh.6
gawd@tushbox:~/Downloads$ cd pipes.sh-1.3.0
gawd@tushbox:~/Downloads/pipes.sh-1.3.0$ make install
test -d /usr/local || mkdir -p /usr/local
test -d /usr/local/bin || mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
test -d /usr/local/share/man/man6 || mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man6
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/man/man6’: Permission denied
Makefile:15: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 1

Ubuntu 18.04, downloaded the latest release tarball, unpacked but having trouble installing.

[StefansM]

Hi @swingcake, It looks like you don't have write access to /usr/local/. You could either run make install as root, or choose another location that you do have write access to. For example: make PREFIX=$HOME/bin install.

[swingcake]

sudo make install worked.

Thank you.