xffm installer script

Foxy foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Thu Jan 12 10:48:49 CET 2006


Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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I have added 'sudo' to 'make install' command in the install.pm and it 
got through without any serious error. I hope it's installed fine.



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