Hi, * Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-01-11 13:38]: > > I noticed that as a normal user, installing eclipse updates may require write > permissions to root filesystem areas (/usr) and will fail. > > How do you get around this as a normal user? Is there a way to allow the > normal user temporary root permissions so as to complete the updates? We carry a patch in Fedora Eclipse that adds an update site in the user's home directory. Things should just work. > If I were to log in as a root user, the updates would be installed but also in > the root user's home directory which is not what I want. In theory they'll go into /usr/share/eclipse but it's not recommended as platform.xml can get written which can mess up subsequent startup. Andrew
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