On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:28 PM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
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>
"make install" does not require root to install in your own
directory. When your building the application do a "./configure --
help" you should see a "--prefix" option. Failing that you can do
some DESTDIR shell foo to tell it to install to a specific directory
and move it from there...
