On Tuesday 20 March 2007 08:38 am, Roger Rustad wrote: > If I want to install a program on a shared Debian host (where I > obviously don't have access to apt-get), I'm assuming all I have to > do is shell into my account and "make install" each program I want?
"make install" requires root. You should be able to do "make", stop there, and link to that directory or run it from that directory with ./<programname> If it's a daemon and it's not running as root, and if it normally uses ports <= 1024, you'll have to change the port it runs on. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: +1 951 643-7540
