Re: Installing programs

["L J White" <lwhite@apci.net>]

Thanks Chester for asking your question!  It is for precisely these kinds of
question that we started this LUG in the first place.

My take is that unless told to do otherwise you should install your
applications as a normal user and place them in the /usr/local directory.
Now if I'm wrong I hope we're both about learn something.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-silug-discuss@silug.org
[mailto:owner-silug-discuss@silug.org]On Behalf Of Chester
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:42 AM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Installing programs


Should new downloaded programs be installed as root, as a
general rule, or as a normal user?

--Chester Langin-------------------------------------------
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~langin>  <mailto:langin@cs.siu.edu>
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