Re: Building/installing Octave as a non-administrator on a sudo system

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 10/05/2013 07:32 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:05:09 -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > I'm curious how many developers have attempted building and install Octave
> > as a non-administrator on a system with sudo.  A non-administrator is
> > someone who does not have privilege to run "sudo".  I might guess it is few,
> > as most people on this list are the admin type who automatically opt for
> > sys-admin status given the chance.
>
> I do this regularly. If I have no admin privileges whatsoever, I
> install into my home directory. Even on my home machines where I do
> have admin privileges, I simply make a directory /opt/gnu/octave as
> root, chown it to be owned by my user account, and then install into
> there.

Yes, that would keep the binary outside of the user account.  Although, 
for a user with, say, limited account disk space, maybe it would make 
sense to build in the /tmp directory and use

>    ../configure --prefix=$HOME
>
> and add $HOME/bin to the PATH,

That way the executable would be in the account, but the object files in 
/tmp and eventually discarded.

Dan