erg, you missed my point. you can do all compilations and do everything except make install as a normal un-priviledged user. try it.
download php to /tmp and unzip it, configure it, make it.... you can do it all not as root. only when you need to type 'make install' is root required. honest. -sd On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have chosen to install and compile software for that very > reason Sasha. Normally a sys admin would install user > packages once, as root, to make the packages available > globally to all other users, which is how I chose to do it. > > So I cannot really comment on installing packages as a > 'normal' user. I have had problems going down this route > before, which is why I do things as root user most of the > time. > > I know it's not the recommended way, but if I was working > as Linux sys admin, then I would have to work as root user, > so I thought I may as well get some practice on my own > machine first. > > Regards > > Keith > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > > > To: php-install@lists.php.net > > From: Sasha Dolgy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] apxs Error: related to libphp5.so > > > > Hi Keith. > > > > "Also, some other packages will refuse to install without working as root > > user" > > > > I am not disagreeing with this. Infact, if you want the application > > available to other users other then yourself and without making your > > home directory open to the rest of the users on the system, it is > > required to have root or more priviledge then a normal user. > > > > For compilation if you require root then something isn't quite right, > > in my opinion. > > > > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Maybe it's a bad habit Sasha, but I generally always work as > > > root user - I get fed up having to su to get something done. > > > > > > Also, some other packages will refuse to install without > > > working as root user ;-) > > > > > > If I am going to trash a system, may as well do it at home > > > and learn by my mistakes! > > > > > > Keith > > > -- Sasha Dolgy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
