Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 09/19/13 19:32, Bob Proulx wrote: Instead of the above add yourself to the 'staff' group. (While there you might as well add yourself to the 'adm' group too. Then you can view the /var/log/* files as yourself too. Unrelated to the current question but useful.) # adduser youruserid

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:00:53PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: In the past, I found that the Debian packaged FreeCiv was buggy. Since then, I've downloaded and built from source. Did you report a bug, like a good citizen? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread recovery...@gmail.com
Hi. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread David Christensen
On 09/18/13 14:57, Gregory Nowak wrote: My guess would be /usr/local. Either there, or in /opt, though I prefer /usr/local for building from source/installing. On 09/19/13 02:25, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Please invoke 'man hier' and read it. Accoring to the man page, /usr/local This is

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:16:04AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home directory as a normal user, and finishing with sudo make install, sudo vi /etc/projectrc, etc.. Does anybody have any compelling arguments for building as

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: David Christensen wrote: But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home directory as a normal user, and finishing with sudo make install, sudo vi /etc/projectrc, etc.. Does anybody have any compelling arguments for building as root under

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:32:36PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Why? Seriously, it isn't needed. Just group 'staff'. I'll admit I didn't take the time to look into the rather extensive /etc/group in debian. Thanks for that, and your other info on groups. Given the wealth of packages in debian, I

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 20:32 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Gregory Nowak wrote: David Christensen wrote: But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home directory as a normal user, and finishing with sudo make install, sudo vi /etc/projectrc, etc.. Does anybody have

What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-18 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page TIA, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide software from source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html