Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (32 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:20:50 -0700
Mike Adolf <mlnx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am a C++ programmer (formerly on Windows) and have started using 
> Kdevelop/Qt.  I did the simple "hello world" sample.  All worked as
> expected until the install step when Kdevelop wanted to install files
> in several directories starting at /usr/local/kde...  All are owned by
> root.  The only way I was able to install was to run Build/Install as
> root.  It is very inconvenient to supply a root password everytime you
> want to run your program.  I looked in the Kdevelop config window but
> did not see a way to alter this, but there must be a way to use
> Kdevelop as a user without evoking root?
You should install to something like $HOME/bin which is a directory that
you own. 



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