install.sh creates ~/.config/sourcetrail owned by root

[knatten]

• Downloaded 2018.3.55 for 64 bit Linux from https://www.sourcetrail.com/downloads
• Extracted the archive
• sudo ./install.sh
• sourcetrail fails:

$ sourcetrail
/usr/bin/sourcetrail: 8: [: /bin: unexpected operator
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
  what():  boost::filesystem::create_directory: Permission denied: "/home/knatten/.config/sourcetrail/log"
Aborted (core dumped)

This is because ~/.config/sourcetrail has wrong ownership:

~/.config$ ls -lad sourcetrail/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 12:21 sourcetrail/

chowning that directory to my user fixed the problem.

[egraether]

Thank you for the report and your solution! #626 is reporting the same problem.

The directory is created in the install.sh script:

mkdir -p ~/.config/sourcetrail

So adding this line to the script would fix the issue?

chown -R $USER ~/.config/sourcetrail

[knatten]

I don't think that will help, as $USER will be root when the script is run with sudo. You probably want something like this:

if [ "$SUDO_USER" ]; then CHOWNUSER=$SUDO_USER; else CHOWNUSER=$USER; fi

But I'm not a bash expert, so take this with a grain of salt.

[egraether]

Fixed with 2018.3.123
I could reproduce the issue on Ubuntu and your solution worked. Thanks for the help!
We will release a beta build this week.