Again, here "LE_PREFIX" is just where you installed GNU libextractor (if it is in /usr, you can omit the option), just as GNUNET_PREFIX is where you want to install GNUnet (if it is /usr/local/, you can omit the option).
I don't think there is any 'confusion' in the documentation about the user and the groups, it is just likely even more complicated than you thought ;-). Best regards, Christian On 11/09/2012 01:28 AM, sngh wrote: > more stuff to the username/groupname confusion: > at the end of ./configure --prefix=$GNUNET_PREFIX > --with-extractor=$LE_PREFIX (as root) > there are some instructions showing again a mix and mess of gnunetdns, gnunet > > > --------- > > configure: ******************************************** > Please make sure NOW that you have created a user and group 'gnunet' > and additionally a group 'gnunetdns': > addgroup gnunetdns > adduser gnunet > > Make sure that '/var/lib/gnunet' is owned (and writable) by user > 'gnunet'. Then, you can compile GNUnet with > make > > After that, run (if necessary as 'root') > make install > to install everything. > > Each GNUnet user should be added to the 'gnunet' group (may > require fresh login to come into effect): > adduser gnunet > (run the above command as root once for each of your users, replacing > "" with the respective login names). If you have a global IP > address, no further configuration is required. > > Optionally, download and compile gnunet-gtk to get a GUI for > file-sharing and configuration. This is particularly recommended > if your network setup is non-trivial, as gnunet-setup can be > used to test in the GUI if your network configuration is working. > gnunet-setup should be run as the "gnunet" user under X. As it > does very little with the network, running it as "root" is likely > also harmless. You can also run it as a normal user, but then > you have to copy ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf" over to the "gnunet" user's > home directory in the end. > > > ------------- > > what is the correct way to do this? please fix these mixed up terms > according to what really is being meant here. > thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > GNUnet-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
