R help - Nov 2011 - Checkinstall and R-2.14.0

Dear all,

I try to install the latest R version using checkinstall (v. 1.6.2) on 
Ubuntu 11.10. After solving all the dependencies (installed using 
apt-get build-dep r-base) checkinstall fails to build and install R 
package with the following error (the same commands build and install 
R-2.13.2 on the same machine without any problem):

wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf R-2.14.0.tar.gz
cd R-2.14.0/
./configure --enable-R-shlib
make
sudo checkinstall

========================= Installation results
==========================make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/m4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/m4'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/tools'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/doc'
installing doc ...
mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib/R/doc
mkdir -p -- /usr/local/share/man/man1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/man': No such file or 
directory
make[1]: *** [installdirs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrej/Downloads/R-2.14.0/doc'
make: *** [install] Error 1

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

The only way to build and install package is with:
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=no
sudo dpkg -i r_2.14.0-1_i386.deb

Any ideas how to solve this issue? Thanks in advance for any help you 
can give.

Best, Andrej

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Andrej Kastrin wrote:
> I try to install the latest R version using checkinstall (v. 1.6.2) on
Ubuntu
> 11.10.
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/man': No such file or 
> directory
Andrej,

   This usually means that you don't have write permissions for that
directory. I assume the ubuntus are the same as Red Hat and Slackware:
application installation is done by the root user, usually from root's login
shell. Since the ubuntus prefer users use sudo rather than define a root
password and use su -, try that route.

Rich

Thanks for reply,

tried as sudo, but error still persist.

Andrej