16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
4:40 p.m.
Tracey Hytry wrote:
David Cournapeau wrote:
you were right in the first place:-) It is good practice to run
installs as non-root since you're pretty sure it's not going to ruin
your system.
Well, this approach, as installing in /opt (or
whatever directory
without the package manager to know).....
I guess I need to learn how to write a little better? What I ment to
say in my post was that I do it this way to check out if something
will indeed run and if it's worth the trouble to get RPM'd.
Maybe I'm a little naive, but I thought that since I do the whole
process as a local(non-root) user, that I can't write to most of
/usr? Maybe I need to study up on what file permissions mean;
because I really thought that since most of it is marked "-rwxr-xr-x
1 root root" when I do a directory listing, that I couldn't write
over these areas.
Thanks for enlightening me. (and as far as adding libraries from source without
using the package
manager - been there, done that, already know the pitfalls... that's
why I try to keep a clean system:)
:-)
erik