Thank you for the post and thank you for this clarification. I do usually run my home computer as root, but creating a user and installing this under that user won't be a big deal. I guess I just needed the clarification for peace of mind that I was doing the best thing for the installation. I just couldn't find an explanation of this anywhere in the docs.
Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jason Elder wrote: > Hi, I'm having trouble with the installation, but I don't know if >this should be posted here....I just downloaded the new version >20070221 of gEDA and I was wondering how I can install it as root. Do not install as root. If you install as root, and you need to install system-wide dependencies, the installer becomes confused when it tries to fire up an expect session as root. Old versions of the installer didn't check to see if the user was root. Then, users running as root would find that the installer failed when it tried to install system dependencies. Therefore, I implemented a check to verify that the user was *not* running as root. This change went in to the 20077221 installer (IIRC). In general, using your Linux box in root all the time is dangerous, and is considered bad form. You can make a mistake and harm your system running as root all the time. Run as a regular user. Stuart --------------------------------- Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta.
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