Re: gEDA-user: installation

[Jason Elder <sundevil724@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the post and thank you for this clarification.  I do usually run my home computer as root, but creating a user and installing this under that user won't be a big deal.  I guess I just needed the clarification for peace of mind that I was doing the best thing for the installation.  I just couldn't find an explanation of this anywhere in the docs.  

Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  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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