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
