It depends on whether or not the package's deps/build.jl script has any package manager providers listed for the relevant library. If you manually install libnlopt0 outside of Julia then I believe BinDeps will see that and not ask for sudo during installation. If you'd rather compile nlopt from source, you should be able to edit ~/.julia/v0.3/NLopt/deps/build.jl and comment out the provides(AptGet, "libnlopt0", libnlopt) line. I'm not sure whether BinDeps is set up to fall back to building from source if you were to abort the apt-get installation.
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 11:32:47 PM UTC-7, Don MacMillen wrote: > > I was surprised to see > > sudo apt-get install libnlopt0 > > on installing NLopt. I'd much prefer a sandboxed install into the .julia > directory. Is there a reason? Are there many other packages that > require sudo for install? > > Thanks. > > >
