Re: [PLUG] linux sw install

[Naresh Reddy <nyg102@psu.edu>]

In linux, i usually do, ./configure --prefix=${HOME} and it works fine.
There are some programs that NEED to have root access, like iptraf (which
monitors the network worloads, and other things). I had trouble installing
things in windows though, it always says I need to have Administration
privilages to install. Maybe it has to do something with the Windows
Registry (yuck!). If anyone find a way to install programs without Admin
accout, please let me know :).


Naresh


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Naresh Reddy
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On 17 Mar 2002, Michael Leone wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:19, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > > Right. But they can install software. And not all software needs to be
> > > installed as Administrator. And most things I install on my Linux
> > > systems wants me to install as root. Not run, just install. Same thing,
> > > isn't it?
> >
> > No. Actually any decent linux installer will let you install as a user. I
> > make a ~/bin dir for that purpose and put my path there. This has been
> > basic to unix for decades. The unix community can't be responsible, for
> > people who broke that model any more than the windows community can be
> > responsible for those who write bad drivers or have terrible uis.
>
> Not my point. I know Unix users can install software. I meant that Win2K
> users can, too (without being Administrator).
>
> >
> > > Ditto for most stuff in Linux. I can't start up many services as a
> > > regular user.
> >
> > All/some fallacy. There are actually some that you can start as a regular
> > user, heck more and more services are trying to run as regular users, but
> > not all can be started as regular users, and I don't know why the tone
> > above seems to suggest that this is a flaw in linux (or unix). Linux has
> > many flaws, but this is not one of them.
>
> Most you can not.
>
> > I suggest that a simple book on unix philosophy is read and thought about
> > for a week, while one works on the console for that week and forget all
> > about the MS mentality,
>
> Most of us admins can't do that, since we must use and support it.
>
> > then we can all come back and talk about the real
> > problems that linux has and how we can all make it better.
>
>
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
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