The use of a regular user instead of root is not an Open Babel specific idea, but a Unix/Linux one. You should never use root for anything unless you need to. And you only need to if you are modifying directories outside the home folder (which is what "make install" does).
To solve your specific problem, just install locally. This is what I do. There's no need for root, and you can easily remove the install directory later if you want to. - Noel On 23 November 2011 17:38, David García Aristegui <[email protected]> wrote: > Installing with the root user, the weird permissions problems persists. I > think the documentation should be more clear about the use of a regular > user instead root, the first mention is in... > > "5. And finally, as root (or using sudo) you should install it: > make install" > > http://openbabel.org/docs/2.3.1/Installation/install.html#compiling-open-babel > > Best regards. > > Related > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00292.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
