Re: [Chicken-users] How to install eggs in $HOME?

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:51:50 +0400
Oleg Kolosov <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/15/14 13:28, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I was playing a bit with Chicken Scheme and was unable to install an
> > egg.
> > 
> > chicken is installed as rpm package chicken in fedora 20.
> > 
> > Now when doing, e.g.
> >    chicken-install numbers             
> > I get a permission denied:
> >   cp: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib64/chicken/6/numbers.so’:
> >   Permission denied
> > 
> > 
> > I could run chicken-install with sudo but I do want to have only
> > stuff in /usr/lib64 which is installed by using the system's
> > package manager.
> > 
> > Question: Could I point chicken to a directory in $HOME where my egg
> > installations could go to?
> > 
> 
> # exact path is irrelevant as long as you can write to it
> mkdir -p $HOME/.local/lib/chicken
> chicken-install -init $HOME/.local/lib/chicken
> export CHICKEN_REPOSITORY=$HOME/.local/lib/chicken
> 
> chicken-install numbers
> 
> Add "export CHICKEN_REPOSITORY ..." command to .bashrc or kde env or
> so to persist.
> 

Great. This is what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

-- 
Manfred