Squeak Installation - root access

Marco Paga mail at marco-paga.de
Fri Apr 25 18:09:18 UTC 2003


I personally downloaded a tar from the website and extracted it in my home. 
After that I copied the binaries into a new and shorter named dir called 
squeak/bin (the bins are in usr/local/lib/squeak/[version]. After that I used 
"~/squeak/bin/squeak ~/squeak/myImage.image".

On Friday 25 April 2003 00:13, Vimal Reddy wrote:
> 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
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> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC
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