tex live 2021 installation question

[Alois Steindl]

Hello,
the reommendation from archlinux sounds very reasonable.
If you are the only TeX user on the system, you could also install it 
somewhere in your home-directory, or wherever you have the right 
permissions.
To install it in /usr/local, you need root permissions, sudo would be 
your friend.
Good luck
Alois
Am 17.08.2021 um 22:15 schrieb Bob:
> Hi All,
>
> I am attempting to do a new installation of tex live 2021 on a new 
> installation of fedora 34.  When running the installer, I received the 
> msg:
>
> Enter command: I
> Installing to: /usr/local/texlive/2021
> install-tl: mkdir(/usr/local/texlive/) failed for tree 
> /usr/local/texlive/2021: Permission denied at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm 
> line 999, <STDIN> line 4.
>
>
>
> What is the best solution?  Should I just mkdir /usr/local/texlive and 
> give write permission to all?
>
> I found something from archlinux at:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183146
>
> that recommends creating a new user:
>
> ==============
>
> I also recommend *not* installing as root. This is also in line with 
> upstream's recommendation. What I did was create a new user and group 
> (texlive:texlive). As root, I also created the directory 
> /usr/local/texlive and made sure it was owned by the texlive user. 
> Then I logged in as that user to install. This works well. Neither the 
> installer nor later use of the utilities can touch your home directory 
> or system files. There is no downside to this - it is no less 
> convenient than having the installation owned by root. So you gain a 
> security benefit for no cost. (Or minimal cost: you have to create a 
> single user and group, make one new directory and chmod that directory 
> appropriately.)
>
> # adjust options as desired
> useradd -d /usr/local/texlive -m -g texlive -r -s /bin/sh texlive
>
> Set a password for the new account, and check ownership and 
> permissions on the new directory:
>
> drwxr-xr-x   7 texlive texlive 4.0K Meh  26 02:14 .
>
> Then log in as texlive and install.
>
> =================
>
> What is the recommended way to solve this permission problem?
>
> --Bob