Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Gnome Wave Cleaner

Tracey Hytry wrote:
> 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.

   you were right in the first place:-) It is good practice to run
installs as non-root since you're pretty sure it's not going to ruin
your system.

> (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:)

   :-)

        erik
Received on Wed Aug 17 00:15:10 2005