David Cournapeau wrote:
> Well, this approach, as installing in /opt (or whatever directory
> without the package manager to know).....
I guess I need to learn how to write a little better? What I ment to say in my post was that I do it this way to check out if something will indeed run and if it's worth the trouble to get RPM'd.
Maybe I'm a little naive, but I thought that since I do the whole process as a local(non-root) user, that I can't write to most of /usr? Maybe I need to study up on what file permissions mean; because I really thought that since most of it is marked "-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root" when I do a directory listing, that I couldn't write over these areas.
Thanks for enlightening me.
(and as far as adding libraries from source without using the package manager - been there, done that, already know the pitfalls... that's why I try to keep a clean system:)
Tracey.
Received on Tue Aug 16 16:15:09 2005
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