Re: gEDA-user: installation

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jason Elder wrote:

> Hi, I'm having trouble with the installation, but I don't know if
> this should be posted here....I just downloaded the new version
> 20070221 of gEDA and I was wondering how I can install it as root.

Do not install as root.  If you install as root, and you need to
install system-wide dependencies, the installer becomes confused when
it tries to fire up an expect session as root.

Old versions of the installer didn't check to see if the user was
root.  Then, users running as root would find that the installer
failed when it tried to install system dependencies.   Therefore, I 
implemented a check to verify that the user was *not* running as
root.  This change went in to the 20077221 installer (IIRC).

In general, using your Linux box in root all the time is dangerous,
and is considered bad form.  You can make a mistake and harm your
system running as root all the time.  Run as a regular user.

Stuart


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