Re: Installing gtk without root access

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Raymond Wan <rwan cs mu oz au> writes:

> 	A few weeks ago, someone posted a message about having problems
> installing GTK without root access.  I'm having problems with it now, but
> before I go digging through the scripts, can someone confirm to me whether
> or not it is possible to install GTK without root access?  Unfortunately,
> our system administrator is overloaded with work (as most sysadmins are :)
> ), so I would like to try to install it myself.

./configure --prefix=<some_directory_where_you_are_allowed_to_write>
make
make install

Then you'll have to add $prefix/bin to your PATH environment variable,
$prefix/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $prefix/lib/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH
and you are done.


Salut, Sven