On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Barry Marler wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote:
> 
> > If I understand the situation, software is installed on a per user basis
> > in Linux. 
> 
> Hmmm.  Download any tarball, tar -zxvf filename, ./configure, make, then
> 'make install' as a non-root user and see what happens.
> 
> 

It _can_ be installed on a per user basis. 
(ex. ./configure --prefix=~/opt) in this case it's a switch to the 
install script provided. ( /net i believe someone said )

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