Problem in installing Tig to my server

Question

How can I give the command "make install" sufficient permissions to run the following successfully?

[~/tig-0.14.1]# make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin && \
for prog in tig; do \
    install -p -m 0755 "$prog" "/usr/local/bin"; \
done
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

I run ./configure and make successfully before the problem.

Answer 1

Either run make install as root, or configure Tig in a directory you have write access to. (Usually with --prefix=<path> to the configure command)