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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

For those who still experience this error, here is a suggestion for a
workaround assuming that the error appears during the installation phase,
that is, when running `scons install':

The error is probably caused by the fact that scons tries to install into
a folder that requires root/sudo privileges, like the default installation
path, which is /usr/local. Instead, installing into a folder in the users
home folder should work. This is probably why running scons.local is
successful as Evan Lezar reports in this post:

http://www.fenics.org/pipermail/dolfin-dev/2008-September/009537.html

If it is necessary to install into a path that requires root privileges,
one can simply install into a local folder first and then copy the files
afterwards.

Johannes