Re: gEDA-user: installation

[joeft <joeft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson 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.

My experience has been that if you are missing some system dependencies, 
the first expect session will always fail, whether running as root or 
not.  This may be unique to the openSuSe distributions, but I don't 
think so.  It is more likely just an issue exposed by the fact that the 
openSuSe installations have less of the system dependencies installed 
out of the box.  Maybe the SuSe distributions are the best way to test 
the installer :)?

Joe T.

> 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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