problem installing fluxbox

[Hypz]

Ive tried installing fluxbox before but had problems and gave up so I could take time and become more familiar with bash commands. And Im back to this again and I'll go step by step.
I type tar zxvf fluxbox-0.1.14.tar.gz in a terminal and scripts fly down the screen everything looks fine.

Then I cd in the newly created fluxbox-0.1.14 dir. and type
./configure. It configures everything seems fine still.
I type make it works fine.

I put in make install and I get
[jesse@xxxxxxxxxx fluxbox-0.1.14]$ make install
Making install in data
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data'
Making install in styles
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles
mkdir /usr/local/share/fluxbox
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/fluxbox': Permission denied
mkdir /usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-styleDATA] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jesse/fluxbox-0.1.14/data'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1






Any ideas I tried? I tries su

[je_fro]

Looks like you need to be root. You did:
su
<password>

?

What distro?

[Hypz]

RH 9 I did su though I dont understand whats wrong.

[sarah31]

going by your commandline prompt:



jesse@xxxxxxxxxx fluxbox-0.1.14]$

you are not root.

as je_fro asked did you:

su

<enteryour password>

then do "make install"?

all indications from that error above is you are trying to install as user.