You need 'sudo' for installing the build dependencies, such as: $ sudo apt-get build-dep upower
But not for getting the source tree, as this is sufficient: $ apt-get source upower If you used sudo for that, the source files and their directories it will be owned by the root user. To change this use: sudo chown -R mikael:mikael upower-0.9.1 Assuming your user name on this system is 'mikael' and you are in the directory you downloaded the source tree to. To install, normally you need once again to use something like: $ sudo make install However, there is a whole world of special building environment/tools that have been created that may be needed by software developers who, it seem, have too much time on their hands and are not satisfied with 'make install' doing some copying :( Finally a warning! Be very careful with chown/chgrp/chmod and the possibility you can recurs to an unexpected place (e.g. don't use '.*' or similar as that will include '..' which then goes up a level and -R takes you down all directors that are parallel to your current one). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/467825 Title: Battery state always "fully charged" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-power/+bug/467825/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
