[mythtv-users] installing MythTV 0.23 as non-root - almost

[agraham]

On 04/06/10 04:57, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 4 June 2010 12:21, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Yes but who do you install it as? In fact there isn't usually a reson
>> to build as root, it's not particularly safe :)
>
> I only ever install as non-root too...
> I would typically do something like
> sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mythtv-trunk
> sudo chown avenardj /usr/local/mythtv-trunk
>
> to create the directory.
> Then
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv-trunk
> make -j4
> make install
>
> That's it.
> the application are installed as non-root (avenardj) ..
>
> I never saw an error with the bindings..
>
>

Your example above does nto work on 0.23 are you using 0.22 ?

However, with the above you still need root access in the first place 
(in your case sudo), that's my problem, I want to install with zero root 
access.


Albert.