Re: [orca-list] orca installation via git repository

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Common mistake in linux.  If you do that and the package doesn't install,
run sudo !!
What that does is repeat the last failed command and use sudo to do it.


On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, Jason White via orca-list wrote:

> On 3/4/22 04:20, Juan Hernandez via orca-list wrote:
> > I download the git source via git,, I cloned it from github.
> >
> > I then idid ./configure ?prefix=/usr/
> >
> >  Then make; make install
> Was it sudo make install?
>
> If not, you probably don't have permission to install under /usr.
>
> It would be better to update your distribution's package instead of
> overwriting it, or to install somewhere else (e.g., /usr/local) so you still
> have a packaged version of Orca that you can rely on if the version from Git
> fails for any reason.