Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?
On 09/19/13 19:32, Bob Proulx wrote:
Instead of the above add yourself to the 'staff' group. (While there
you might as well add yourself to the 'adm' group too. Then you can
view the /var/log/* files as yourself too. Unrelated to the current
question but useful.)
# adduser youruserid staff
# adduser youruserid adm
Then log out and log back in again so that the new groups will be part
of your process.
$ id | grep --color staff
Since all of the directories in /usr/local are writable by group
'staff' you now have the capability to write to files there without
being root.
That's useful. :-)
I don't normally build there. I normally build in my $HOME/src
directory. But upon building it means I can install in the system
local /usr/local directory as myself *without root*. That adds a good
safety net against makefile mistakes.
$ tar xzvf project-1.0.1.tar.gz
$ cd project-1.0.1
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
That will install in /usr/local/bin and associated places. No need
for root. Just use group staff.
Much better. :-)
Have you looked at what is already available in Debian?
$ apt-cache search freeciv
freeciv-client-extras - Civilization turn based strategy game (miscellaneous extras)
freeciv-client-gtk - Civilization turn based strategy game (GTK+ client)
freeciv-client-sdl - Civilization turn based strategy game (SDL client)
freeciv-client-xaw3d - Civilization turn based strategy game (Xaw3D client)
freeciv-data - Civilization turn based strategy game (game data)
freeciv-server - Civilization turn based strategy game (server files)
freeciv-sound-standard - Civilization turn based strategy game (standard sound pack)
In the past, I found that the Debian packaged FreeCiv was buggy. Since
then, I've downloaded and built from source.
$ apt-cache search openjdk | grep ^openjdk-7
openjdk-7-dbg - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
openjdk-7-demo - Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
openjdk-7-doc - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
openjdk-7-jdk - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
openjdk-7-jre-zero - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark
openjdk-7-source - OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files
openjdk-7-jre - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT
openjdk-7-jre-headless - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
openjdk-7-jre-lib - OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent libraries)
I want the current stable release of JDK, which means downloading and
building from source.
David
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