2011/2/13 james frize <[email protected]>: > Got my Debian packages almost fully working now, everything > installs/uninstalls without error. > However, when I try to run the newly installed program it wont work > properly as it lacks permission to save to file. > > My program loads a list of hyperlinks from a text file (links.txt), > this text file is currently in usr/share/<packagename> (I've also > tried to install it directly to home/<user>/Documents but that didn't > work either) > > I want my makefile to install links.txt in a manner that will allow my > end user to write to the file without permission violation.
Sounds like the file should be installed by the program if it is not found. A default file can be placed in and copied from /usr/share/<packagename> if it is provided. I don't think /home/<user>/Documents is a good place for this; prefer ~/.<packagename>/links.txt instead. You'll probably have to patch up the source code. If the upstream package wants to modify something in /usr/share, it violates the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Regards, Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
