Hi Dan,

All I can say is, it works for me. I have SA in the following locations:

/home/kc8hr/bin/sausr/bin/spamassassin
/home/kc8hr/bin/sausr/share/spamassassin

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Non-root mentioned twice: These should be consolidated
> $ egrep -in 'personal|non-root' /var/tmp/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55/INSTALL
> 
> 45:To install as non-root, do something like this:
> 105:Installing SpamAssassin for Personal Use (Not System-Wide)
> 
> also, telling the Personal Use user to do "make install" causes:
> 
> mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl: Permission denied at 
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 80
> make[1]: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/danspam/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55'
> 
> No, your instructions are very wrong
> 
>       make
>       make install
> 
> we never get thru make install. even if we:
> 
>       cd $(tdir)/Mail-SpamAssassin-* && \
>       perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc \
>       INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc && \
>       make INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc && \
>       make install INST_PREFIX=~/usr INST_SYSCONFDIR=~/etc
> 
> please somebody tell me how to make install in $HOME!?
> 
> You are trying to write to /usr/local/lib/perl ... but I want to write
> to my home dir, am I "SOL"?!

Make sure you give the full path in the makefile, like mine:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/kc8hr/bin/sausr 
SYSCONFDIR=/home/kc8hr/bin/saetc

Good Luck!
Tim

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