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- From: Joe Davison <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:13:52 -0600
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 02:15 AM, Markian Hlynka wrote:
> It didn't seem to relate directly, but it twigged my curiosity. Can
> anyone tell me, is it usual to have to sudo things to install them for
> x11?
>
Well, /usr/X11R6 is outside your user area, and was created by the X11
installer, for which you had to enter your administrator password. --
That did a sudo -- so the directories and files created during
installation are owned by root/wheel. Therefore, to change them or add
new files, the make/installer will need to do a sudo. So "Yes!".
I gave all that detail to make it clear that under most circumstances
when you're installing anything outside your /Users/xxx directories,
you'll need to do a sudo.
joe
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