Install into /usr/local

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Sat Feb 17 10:34:56 PST 2007


On 17-Feb-2007, at 09:45, Richard Taubo wrote:
> The install doc (sphinx.txt) have the following instructions . . . :
> $ make install
> $ cd /usr/local/sphinx/etc
> $ cp sphinx.conf.dist sphinx.conf
> $ /usr/local/sphinx/bin/searchd
>
> . . . so it does not seem like he is installing as root.

Well, Linux/Unix/FreeBSD instructions tend to assume that people know  
when they do and do not need to be 'root' and most of the time when  
you are installing software anywhere outside your own directory, you  
have to be root to do so.

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