On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Bernie wrote: > Casper wrote: > > So you don't think a user should have the rights to install programs? Weird > since many Linux systems are in a networked environment where you as a user > can't install (nor root access). If you want to blame Michael blame me as > well, I encouraged his choice while he was still wondering if it was good. > That Arachne requires the executable to be installed by a root user to be > able to use SVGALib is another thing entirely. > Take the good program SetEdit that Dev wrote about in another mail - > there's no way we ever could get the admin at school to install such a > program since it isn't for X. > The way I do it (and is in general use) is like this: in my home directory, /home/cl2k I have a sub-tree /home/cl2k/bin /home/cl2k/lib /home/cl2k/doc /home/cl2k/man /home/cl2k/src I install programms I want in to those directory's. It's very easy to configure Makefiles to install into such a place. Then I adjust some variables: export PATH="$PATH:/home/cl2k/bin" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/cl2k/lib" etc... This way everything works just like it is normally installed. -- Casper Gielen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It was a user's "club", ... in the sense of the "club" being a large stick usefull for beating IBM about the head with. Frank Wagner
