xffm installer script

Edscott Wilson Garcia edscott at xfce.org
Thu Jan 12 02:21:52 CET 2006




On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Foxy wrote:

> Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Foxy wrote:
>>
>>
>
> How should I use 'sudo'?
>
> If I do sudo ./installer.sh, it does not run autogen.sh
>
>> Doing sh ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/xfce4-svn         ...
>> autogen.sh: You don't seem to have the Xfce development tools installed on
>>             your system, which are required to build this software.
>>             Please install the xfce4-dev-tools package first, it is
>> available

Looks like your path environment variable is broken when you use sudo. I 
have no idea why sudo is breaking your path environment. If you install 
xfce-dev-tools in a location where your sudo program can find it you 
should have no problems.

regards,



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