* How do you download EMACS without being superuser?...
@ 2013-09-12 23:12 Don Saklad
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From: Don Saklad @ 2013-09-12 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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How do you download EMACS without being superuser?...
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@ 2013-09-13 1:45 ` Dan Espen
2013-09-13 17:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: Dan Espen @ 2013-09-13 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org> writes:
> How do you download EMACS without being superuser?...
Download?
Since when do downloads require superuser?
I think you're asking about how to install without having root?
Simple answer, when doing configure, use:
./configure --prefix=/place-to-install
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Dan Espen
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2013-09-13 1:45 ` Dan Espen
@ 2013-09-13 17:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2013-09-13 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org> writes:
> How do you download EMACS without being superuser?...
PREFIX="${HOME}/opt"
mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/{bin,share,lib,src}
export PATH="${PREFIX}/bin:${PATH}"
cd "${HOME}/opt/src"
VERSION=24.3
wget "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
tar zxf "emacs-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
cd "emacs-${VERSION}"
./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt && make && make install
cd
emacs
Now one problem may be that if you're not superuser, you don't have
access to much disk space either, there may have disk quotas. Sometimes
so little that you can't even unpack emacs sources.
Also, if you're not alone installing one's own copy of emacs, the
sysadmin may become angry and kill your accounts.
Stuff like that…
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__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
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