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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:23364] Re: why need to be su to install?
From:       Alfons Hoogervorst <alfons () proteus ! demon ! nl>
Date:       2004-09-08 18:19:04
Message-ID: 20040908201904.1abf203d () proteus ! demon ! nl
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Lo Mark,

On 08-09-04 (Wed) 14:04 -0400 Mark Ackerman wrote: 

| I need to put sylpheed on a server for which I have no root access.
| There's no problem getting the sysadmins to install it, but I'd like
| to make some changes to the code for my own customizations.  Can 
| someone clue me into what is required as superuser in the installation
| process?  If it's just starting daemons, that is an easy one to solve.

You can install it to any directory, including your home. Set up a
prefix like this:

	% configure --prefix=~/my_programs 

In that case sylpheed will be installed under ~/my_programs/bin.

Bye.

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