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gnome-terminal package

permission denied when trying to make a directory

Asked by Austin Van Duzer

im downloading this trunk and here is the command line

austin@ubuntu:~/bin$ svn co http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk /metasploit

but when i run it, it says

svn: Can't make directory '/metasploit': Permission denied

can some one help?

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Best nexes128 (nexes128) said : 		#1

The command should be
svn co http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk metasploit

The extra slash you have on the end tells svn to try and access the root directory instead of the trunk.

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Austin Van Duzer (austinvanduzer) said : 		#2

Thanks nexes128, that solved my question.