Flair installation failed

Versions

Please provide the used software versions.

FLUKA: fluka4-5.1
Flair: flair-3.4
Operating system: Linux Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Compiler: gfortran

Description

While running the following command

make install install-bin install-mime

We got the errors as described below:

make -C viewer

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/viewer’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/viewer’

make -C farm

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/farm’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/farm’

make -C geometry

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/geometry’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/geometry’

make -C data

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/data’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/data’

make -C graph

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/graph’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/graph’

make -C math

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/math’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/math’

make -C tool

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/tool’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/tool’

make -C xdraw

make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/xdraw’

make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.

make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/grb-216/flair-geoviewer-3.4/xdraw’

mkdir -p /usr/local/flair

mkdir -p /usr/local/flair/fonts

test UNIX = UNIX && install -m 744 geoviewer.so /usr/local/flair || install -m 644 geoviewer.so /usr/local/flair

install: cannot remove ‘/usr/local/flair/geoviewer.so’: Permission denied

install: cannot remove ‘/usr/local/flair/geoviewer.so’: Permission denied

makefile:333: recipe for target ‘install’ failed

make: *** [install] Error 1

FLAIR geoviewer is not installed. Please suggest

Input files

Please upload all relevant files. (FLUKA input file, Flair project file, user routines, and data files)

Dear Maitreyee,

The error suggests that you don’t have permission to install; try to run the command as sudo.

However, Flair now requires Python 3.9, which is not available on Ubuntu 18.04 by default. Please update to a newer version of Ubuntu (at least 22.04) or make sure you have Python 3.9 available.

Cheers,
David