installing xfce by non root

[K. Prasad]

Hi,

I have all my installations in my home directory on
solaris. What i do is that i compile everything
including gtk, etc with the --prefix=$(HOME)/local, so
that gtk is installed in my home and while compiling
xfce i specify the --with-conf-dir, --with-data-dir
etc to set them to a path inside my home

regards

K Prasad

--- Stephane Paltani <spaltani at head-cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> Hum, that's because xfce tries to write the
> lib/gtk/themes directory.
> As I had to install gtk as well, on my system, I can
> write there too.
> I guess the only "problem" you have is that you
> cannot use xfce
> theme.
> 
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to ignore errors
> occuring during the
> installation of xfce_theme. This is quite easy to do
> in a Makefile (putting
> a "-" before the command), but I don't know whether
> automake supports that.
> 
> Stephane
> 
> Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, works great. Although I still have to
> remove xfce_theme from the make
> > install.
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
> > On Thursday 14 March 2002 16:17, Stephane Paltani
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Never had any problem with non-root installation
> (which I do ~ every other
> > > xfce release). For etc files, I just have to add
> a switch to configure
> > > script:
> > >
> > > --sysconfdir=/export/spaltani/local/etc
> > >
> > > (I also have
> --datadir=/export/spaltani/local/share for xfce
> data).
> > > Other than that, I do not need to change
> anything.
> > >
> > > The error message you get seems indeed related
> to the removal of
> > > xfce_themes, which is not necessary with the
> --sysconfdir switch.
> > >
> > > Stephane
> > >
> > > Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> > > > Has anybody installed xfce in a user
> directory? I'm trying to install it
> > > > on a linux cluster where I don't have root
> access, and I have to remove
> > > > xfce_themes from the make install process, and
> the stuff in /etc/X11/xfce
> > > > can't be put somewhere else.
> > > >
> > > > And once I try to run the programs, I get a
> lot of :
> > > >
> > > > Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable
> module in module_path:
> > > > "libxfce.so"
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas or suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > saludos,
> > > >
> > > > Edscott
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