Updating Python...Newbie alert!

Carel Fellinger cfelling at iae.nl
Tue Mar 5 18:01:21 EST 2002


Mr.Lee <mrlee at davesupply.com> wrote:
>         How new am I?  I am this new: when I typed 'make install'
> went into it's proper place!  I didn't quite finish the proper
> procedures.  Ya lern sumthin' new ev'ryday.

If this worked and you didn't specify an --prefix to ./configure then
you're probably running as root. *Don't do that* It will heart someday.

Do the ./configure and make dance as a normal user and switch to root
just to do the install step.

-- 
groetjes, carel



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