Vince Coen wrote to All:
VC> Hello All!
VC> 
VC> I have managed to build mbse on a brand new Pi (using a SD card as total 
VC> storage).
VC> 
VC> I must work out how to use a USB hard drive with its own power supply (the 
VC> Pi
VC> power is not high enough at
VC> 2.5A).
VC> 
VC> How ever when trying to install mbse I have hit a snag and cannot work out 
VC> how
VC> to get around it.
VC> 
VC> Namely I cannot so a 'su' to install it via make install that is because 
VC> (I
VC> suspect) that the su feature
VC> is not available only sudo.
VC> 
VC> The standard user needless to say is user  pi when starting the system.
VC> 
VC> If I do a sudo -s
VC> 
VC> then run make it complains about $MBSE_ROOT not availble.
VC> 
VC> Can I do a sudo -s the set $MBSE_ROOT by just running export 
VC> $MBSE_ROOT=/home/mbse
VC> 
VC> Then make install ?
VC> 
VC> Will that work correctly?

become root user (sudo su) and then set a password for root (passwd). The
classic su will work afterwards. This is how I worked around that issue.
 
VC> One issue I do know is that the O/S Raspbian is only 32 bit while the Pi 
VC> is 64
VC> so creating a reduced
VC> system. The Pi 3B is possibly the first that is 64 bit.

Nope, the Pi 2 already was / is 64 bit but at that time no 64 bit distros
(aarch64) were avaialbe for it. (Open) SuSE were the first to come up with
that. 

Hop this helps,
Niels


    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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