On Sunday 12 Sep 2004 12:54 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:41:34 +0200 > > Thereidos disseminated the following: > > > Wherever you downloaded the file to, yes. So, say you downloaded > > > Planner to /home/john/downloads, you would 'cd' to that dir, then > > > do as advised above. *Then* 'cd planner-0.12.1', ./configure > > > --prefix=/usr, make, su to root, and make install. > > > > I'd rather suggest : #su -c "make install" (without # but with all > > quotes) rather than su'ing to root
My standard line is now: sudo checkinstall make install sudo is identical in effect to su -c, but requires your user password rather than root, and if you do it again within five minutes it doesn't ask for the password again. checkinstall means that you can uninstall the package with the urpmi suite. > > cause it is quite possible to > > simply forget that you're running as root and do something you > > could regret. It happened to me couple of times before... > > Good recommendation, and yes, I've, uh, had some problems with that > before too. One reason that my root terminal sessions have red backgrounds. But, of course, not su'd sessions. -- Richard Urwin
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