Fresh install dev_setup.sh permissions problem ManjaroArch

[PeterKW]

I've just tried to install Mycroft, but I think there is a permissions problem somewhere. I'm not quite certain what permissions to change and wanted to double check. Does having this error mean that the permissions on my root '/' are incorrect? What should they be?

/usr/share/mycroft-core  ./dev_setup.sh     
...
The standard location for Mycroft skills is under /opt/mycroft/skills.
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'skills': Permission denied

 /opt/mycroft  tree                                                                               
.
└── skills

1 directory, 0 files
 /opt/mycroft  ls -al                                                                                 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 p p  12 Nov 12 22:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root      root      350 Nov 12 21:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 p p  0 Nov 12 22:04 skills

[ChanceNCounter]

I think it's /usr/share/mycroft-core where you're encountering the permissions problem.

[PureTryOut]

It is. dev_setup.sh is not meant to be ran from a root-owned folder, instead it's meant to be ran from the git directory which should've been cloned to somewhere in the home folder. The error you're getting means it failed to link /opt/mycroft/skills to $PWD/skills (which it does for developing convenience) which makes sense, as /usr/share/mycroft-core is (I assume) owned by root and you don't run the script as root (and neither should you!).