[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Problems with scratchbox installation

[From: Vladislav Grinchenko]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 07:21, log2 ins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install scratchbox on Ubuntu, following the instructions
> from maemo.org tutorial.
> 
> The problem is that when I launch run_me_first.sh it stops with this
> error:
> 
> groupadd: impossibile fare il lock del file dei gruppi (English: it's
> not possible to lock the group file)
> ERROR while creating group: sbox
> 
> I don't know what I have to do. Anyone can help me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Antonio
> 

Have you tried running  run_me_first.sh as root? 
Make sure you *login* as root (su -) rather then change to root.
groupadd is in /usr/sbin/ which might not be in your path.

-Vlad



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