Mike McCarty wrote: > Enrico Bianco wrote: > > [snip quoted material] > >> >> Firstly, there are three basic steps to installing something from source: >> 1) ./configure (to configure the build) >> 2) make (to build the binaries and other related files) >> 3) make install (to copy the files to their proper places) > > > Not to pick a nit in your otherwise wonderful response, you left > out one little detail. One often must be su to root in order > to perform step 3. > > [snip] > > Mike Thank you thank you thank you. Assuming the recommendation of --prefix=$HOME I made later in that same mail, su to root is not required since all files would be being copied into directories under the particular user's home directory. But yes, that detail should not be left out, so thanks for covering it for me. =) Enrico
