Short answer is: no. Geany has to find certain files at startup, the most important one, as you found out, being the interface definition file (basically what creates the UI).
What I would recommend you to do is choose a specific prefix, i.e. a installation folder. To do so, you set it when calling `configure` like so: `./configure --prefix="$HOME/geany/"` (or any other directory you like). Then, when running `make install` it'll put everything under that directory, and you'll find Geany's binary in `$HOME/geany/bin/geany` (in the example above). This way you have a properly installed version, but entirely separate from the system's one. >From where you are, you'll need to re-build everything though, as some >internals depend on the prefix[^1]: ```shell ~/geany-2.0 $ make distclean ~/geany-2.0 $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/geany" ~/geany-2.0 $ make ~/geany-2.0 $ make install ``` [^1]: rebuilding the required bits should be automatic, but it's probably fast enough to rebuild everything not to risk it if you're not comfortable with all this yet. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/discussions/4239#discussioncomment-12129582 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/repo-discussions/4239/comments/[email protected]>
