Hi,
I’m trying to install the github version on my banana pi
I get as far as the skills setup section then it gives the following error
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘skills’: Permission denied
I did come across a related post which mentioned that if I create the folder manually
then restart the installation to resolve this, but this didn’t work in my case
picroft isn’t an option since it’s not compatible with the banana pi
Can someone assist me in resolving this issue
best regards
pheonixfire
The problem here is that during installation, Mycroft creates a symbolic link to /opt/mycroft/skills from the skills directory in your install location. See below for an example:
kathyreid@kathyreid-zenbook-ux533fd:~/mycroft-core$ ls -las
total 156
4 drwxr-xr-x 11 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:53 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 43 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 12 17:13 ..
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 235 Dec 9 09:42 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:42 bin
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 3218 Dec 9 09:42 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 70 Dec 9 09:42 .coveralls.yml
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 44 Dec 9 09:43 .dev_opts.json
20 -rwxr-xr-x 1 kathyreid kathyreid 18041 Dec 9 09:42 dev_setup.sh
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:42 doc
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 23:37 .git
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:42 .github
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 413 Dec 9 09:42 .gitignore
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 1399 Dec 9 09:42 .gitmessage
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 154 Dec 9 09:53 .installed
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 11733 Dec 9 09:42 LICENSE.md
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 228 Dec 9 09:42 MANIFEST.in
4 drwxr-xr-x 19 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:53 mimic
4 drwxr-xr-x 22 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:53 mycroft
4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 kathyreid kathyreid 67 Dec 9 09:42 .pep8speaks.yml
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 8397 Dec 9 09:42 README.md
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 523 Dec 9 09:42 requirements.txt
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:42 scripts
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 2738 Dec 9 09:42 setup.py
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kathyreid kathyreid 19 Dec 9 09:43 skills -> /opt/mycroft/skills
8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 kathyreid kathyreid 7315 Dec 9 09:42 start-mycroft.sh
4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 kathyreid kathyreid 3206 Dec 9 09:42 stop-mycroft.sh
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:42 test
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 118 Dec 9 09:42 test-requirements.txt
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 903 Dec 9 09:42 .travis.yml
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 kathyreid kathyreid 4096 Dec 9 09:56 .venv
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 kathyreid kathyreid 2393 Dec 9 09:42 venv-activate.sh
```
I would suggested *manually* creating the link:
```
cd mycroft-core
ln -s /opt/mycroft/skills skills
```
you might need to run `ln` with `sudo`.