[Pd] Installing Pd on Linux

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Chuckk Hubbard hat gesagt: // Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>> > So I untar this gz file and cd to the src directory.  I follow the
>> > instructions, and pd installs to /home/chuckk/pd-0.40.0-2.
>>
>> Which .gz file is this? I've never seen a pd-tgz install to the home
>> directory unless you specificially configured it this way. Default
>> install target is "/usr/local/" Or did you miss the final "make
>> instalL" step after compiling?
> 
> Hi.
> http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Software/pd-0.40-2.src.tar.gz
> I think it was just that I was running "make" as a normal user, one of
> the possibilities in the INSTALL.txt.  I did make install as root, and
> it's in /usr/local now.


hi.


"make" (without "install") only changes/updates/creates files in the
your local copy of pd; "make install" copies some files into
/usr/local/; or /usr; or somewhere else where everybody can find it.

when running "make install" as a normal user, the installation most
likely fails; but you will still be able to use the local pd-executables
(created by "make"); after all "make install" basically mirrors your
local pd-dir (and omits some unnecessary things like source-code).


> Sometimes I think I should have spent some time in a monastery before
> installing Linux.  I'd flip out a little less.


are you possibly suggesting, that normal users should be able to install
(and overwrite) software into /usr/local/ without having to acquire
special permissions? good luck.

i wouldn't want any user to be able to put an "xterm" executable with a
built-in keylogger into /usr/local/bin.
i also would hate to delete my harddisk because my "make clean" target
had a typo.

mf.adr
IOhannes


> -Chuckk
> 
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