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I was trying to install Veetle using the provided installer, issuing

sh veetle-0.9.17-linux-install.sh

However, I get the following...

tar: ./.mozilla/plugins: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: ./.mozilla: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted

There's a lot of output, so I only displayed the last few lines.

Please help.

EDIT

the installer works. the error messages came AFTER the user agreement i agreed to.

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Did you try to sudo the installer. The error suggests that you have insufficient permissions for that file/folder. Just try to run:

sudo sh veetle-0.9.17-linux-install.sh

Ok. I did a little more research. The error still suggests that you don't have the rights to modify the time via utime when you "untar" your program via the script.

I tried to install Veetle on my Ubuntu 10.10 box and it worked flawlessly. No problems at all.

You can check if you somehow mounted your filesystem which you are going to write on in a strange way. That could cause the error.

Additionally I found some help here. You could try to add to add '--atime-preserve' to tar inside the script. If you are unfamiliar with bash, here is the script with the parameter added: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/699970/veetle-0.9.17-linux-install_mod.sh

If this still does not work you can manually extract the tar to the correct location. Hit me up if you need help with that.

Good luck.

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if i do this, i get a message telling me how it is not good to use superuser account, and then when i successfully install, i still canot use veetle to watch anything. – kimsia Feb 21 '11 at 1:03
updated my answer. hit me up if you need more help. – Jelko Feb 21 '11 at 19:43
instead of awhole list of errors, i now have just 1 error when using ur modified sh file – kimsia Feb 21 '11 at 21:40
tar: ./.mozilla: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors – kimsia Feb 21 '11 at 21:40
i have downloaded the tarball. followed the instructions inside the INSTALL document. I still cannot watch veetle using firefox. Please advise. – kimsia Feb 21 '11 at 21:52
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