On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:05:22 -0400 BandiPat <magicpage91 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>Hi Penelope, > >> > >> > >>>I have installed Scribus 1.1.7 from source; I did the standard > >./configure ; make ; make install, all as root. > ============= > > Penelope, > I think you might have misread Rolf's mail. The reason your install of > Scribus won't run for the user is because you built it as root! In > compiling a file, you MUST perform the first two commands as USER in > your shell, not ROOT! You can always check your status in the shell > with the command "whoami". > *please* don't fill people's heads with nonsense. You can compile a program as any user you want it to, it's just advised to do it as a non-root user. I compile scribus as root all the time, simply because I always discover I forgot to install a package along the road and I quickly apt-get it, and then continue the configure/make again. You need to do "make install" as root anyway, so ... The reason you can't run it as a non-root user might more be that you have a.scribus directory owned by root in your user's account or so... strace the program to see where a permission denied occurs and you'll have found the culprit. Franky
