[outreachy] Permission error while setting up Suricata

[megha Varshney]

Greetings!
I got the below error when I tried setting up suricata.

   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Warning> -- No suricata application binary
      found on path.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Info> -- Using default Suricata version of 4.0.0
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Warning> -- Cache directory does not exist and
      could not be created. /var/tmp will be used instead.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Info> -- No sources configured, will use
      Emerging Threats Open
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Info> -- Last download less than 15 minutes
      ago. Not downloading
      https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata-4.0.0/emerging.rules.tar.gz
      .
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:40 - <Warning> -- No distribution rule directory
      found.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Loaded 26883 rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Disabled 0 rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Enabled 0 rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Modified 0 rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Dropped 0 rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Enabled 188 rules for flowbit
      dependencies.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Info> -- Creating directory
      /var/lib/suricata/rules.
   14/3/2019 -- 00:34:43 - <Error> -- Failed to create directory
      /var/lib/suricata/rules: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
      '/var/lib/suricata/rules'

Please help!
Regards,
Megha Varshney
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