My issue was rather that root was used during the compilation process. I
would suggest building somewhere in the user's home directory rather than
/opt which is meant for installed software that doesn't use conventional
paths. I now have access and will edit the page when I find some time.
On 9 August 2013 00:31, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_berna...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: Dick Hollenbeck <d...@softplc.com>
> > To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 3:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Install KiCad on non Ubuntu distros -
> best way?
> >
> > On 08/08/2013 10:35 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> >> I Kaspar,
> >> yes please contribute to it. I did write these instructions while
> >> installing Kicad. for access to the web ask Miguel. He is the boss if
> >> it.
> >> Alternatively I can make the modifications you want. Send them to
> >> fabrizio.tappero (at) gmail dot com
> >> cheers
> >> Fab.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Kaspar Bumke <kaspar.bu...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>> Thanks for these instructions. I am switching to Debian myself and
> they
> >>> helped me quickly get KiCAD installed again to look at board I need to
> >>> solder!
> >>>
> >>> However, there are quite a few bad practices in there mainly in using
> > sudo
> >>> when you don't need to (also, unlike in Ubuntu sudo isn't
> > necessarily
> >>> installed on Debian) and using /opt/ to build which should be for
> > installed
> >>> software. Is there a way I can edit this page?
> >
> >
> > I think currently you are limited under linux as to where you can
> install KiCad,
> > and still
> > have it function correctly. This is one of the things on my to do list,
> to look
> > at in
> > detail. I have to finish up a board first.
> >
> > But with the current constraints, I actually do think you have to use
> sudo. So
> > be careful
> > that whatever you'd like to write about is currently actually true.
> >
> > I do agree that it should be possible to install on linux without sudo,
> but I
> > don't
> > understand how that is currently true.
> >
> >
> > Dick
> >
>
>
> In UNIX I expect it will always be the case that certain root privileges
> are required to install system-wide software; offhand I don't know if it's
> possible to create a system user who can install new software without
> essentially having full root privileges. Users can always install a local
> copy in their home directory for themselves and if they set appropriate
> permissions and other users set appropriate PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> variables, then other users can use that local copy. Installing locally is
> as easy as:
> make install DESTDIR=${HOME}
> Unless a user has explicitly set installation path variables, things will
> go into ${HOME}/usr/local
>
> - Cirilo
>
>
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