Squeak Installation - root access

Vimal Reddy vimalreddy at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 24 22:13:08 UTC 2003


Could you tell me what your installation procedure was like? 
Thanks,
Vimal

--- Marco Paga <mail at marco-paga.de> wrote:
> 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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Vimal Reddy
Graduate Student, ECE
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Ph: (919) 836-8254 Web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~vkreddy

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