Squeak Installation - root access

Marco Paga mail at marco-paga.de
Thu Apr 24 20:13:15 UTC 2003


I used it without using root rights by just calling the binarys from a normal 
dir in my home and used something like: ./squeak 
~/squeak/Squeak3.4/Squeak.image.



On Thursday 24 April 2003 22:07, Vimal Reddy wrote:
> Hello list,
> I was trying to install squeak. I wanted to install it on a Linux Box or
> Sparc workstation. I dont have the root access to either. Is it possible to
> install Squeak without root access?
> My understanding is it is just enough if I have all the files at the right
> places in local directory (than /usr/local ..). Please let me know. Here is
> what I tried:
>
>
> 1. Changed the _root_ variable in the INSTALL file from _/_ to
> _/some/local/dir_
>  (Do you think that works? What other changes are needed? )
>
> 2. I did
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> "/some/local/dir/usr/lib/squeak/3.4-1:"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH setenv PATH
> "/some/local/dir/usr/bin/squeak:"$PATH
>
> After that I went to "/some/local/dir/usr/lib/squeak" and ran the inisqueak
> . It's not able to detect where the Image is?
>
>
> Let me know if anybody has tried to install without being root.
>
> Thanks,
> Vimal
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