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Install Cmake occurs and error in Centos7. How to deal with it?

I need to install a software that needs cmake. Every step till make install work fine. Then at make install this is the error:

CMake Error at Source/kwsys/cmake_install.cmake:46 (file):
  file cannot create directory: /usr/local/doc/cmake-3.18/cmsys.  Maybe need
  administrative privileges.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake_install.cmake:47 (include)

make: *** [install] Error 1

I don’t have administrative privileges, so i can’t just add sudo.
I am new to working with this, so please be a little bit easy to understand

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    When running cmake, you can tell CMake to install the software in some other location that you have access to. Just set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable to point to that location. So, your cmake command line might change from:

    cmake ..

    to this:

    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/username/software/ ..

    See this response for another way to do this in the CMake file itself.

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    You can also use the good old DESTDIR (ed work, at least, with Makefile generator, and don’t need to reconfigure).
    ref: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

    cmake --build build --target install -- DESTDIR=/home/username/software/

    which should install in /home/username/software/usr/local/[bin|lib|include]/...

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