# Installing in user directory

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/installing-in-user-directory/47032>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 11, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/installing-in-user-directory/47032 "2016-05-11T15:19:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Colin\_Rosenthal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Colin\_Rosenthal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Colin_Rosenthal)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/installing-in-user-directory/47032/1 "2016-05-11T15:19:23Z")

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Am I missing something here?

```auto
[wowza@iapetus csr]$ ./WowzaStreamingEngine-4.4.1-linux-x64-installer.run --prefix /home/wowza/csr
Wowza Streaming Engine Setup - Error: There has been an error.
The directory
/usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine-4.4.1
does not exist

```

I’m trying to install in a local directory so why is it complaining about a missing directory in /usr/local ?

–

Colin Rosenthal

State And University Library

Aarhus, Denmark

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**Author:** ![Colin\_Rosenthal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Colin\_Rosenthal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Colin_Rosenthal)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/installing-in-user-directory/47032/2 "2016-05-12T09:26:37Z")

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I just worked around it by installing on another machine where I have sudo access, and then copying the installation over. There were a few paths that needed to be fixed up in the bin directory, but otherwise wowza started without any obvious problems.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/installing-in-user-directory/47032/3 "2016-05-12T05:57:43Z")

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Thanks for the update and glad you got this sorted.

Regards,

Salvadore