On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:01:15AM +0800, David Adam wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Lean Rada wrote: > > I am trying to install and use fish in a computer where I do not have su > > priviledges (e.g. in school). > > > > I downloaded the source and compiled it (I did not 'make install', just > > 'configure' and 'make'). I put it in some directory, then I ran fish from > > bash. It failed. Unfortunately, I haven't copied the output. > > > > Is there a way to use fish without installing it? > > On Linux, the best way is to install it to a directory that you have > control over. > > For example, if you create a directory `fish-prefix` in your home > directory, you can then run: > > ./configure --prefix=~/fish-prefix > make > make install > ~/fish-prefix/bin/fish
or install directly into the home directory: ./configure --prefix=~/ then fish will end up in ~/bin/fish together with other programs that you may install in the future. you can put ~/bin on your PATH (if it's not there already) greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life hackerspace beijing - http://qike.info -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net foresight developer realss.com foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin trainer developer societyserver.org Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
