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
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