[Xastir] No install

[Murry B]

A bit of work and I found the file.
It is in the  home  directory  and hidden
  It is  .bashrc
I just commented out the  "alias line"


On 01/16/2011 09:27 PM, Murry B wrote:
> I made the original post and didn't put some info in my last one.
> My apologies.
> I had a bit of a flash in memory about  su  so I searched the forum 
> and found it.
> In PCLinuxOS you will find that  su  issues an alias. I don't remember 
> the file I had to modify, you guys will have a better idea of that. 
> Working from an old memory here, but su issues  su- and it took me to 
> the root directory. Once I changed that item in whatever file it is, I 
> was OK.
> Now when I  su  I stay at the same place but get root access.
> Hope someone can make sense of this.
>
> VE9MB
>
>
>
> On 01/16/2011 04:52 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Curt, WE7U<curt.we7u at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Murry B wrote:
>>>
>>>   Just trying to install Xastir from cvs in PCLinuxOS
>>>> I used the  "how to" and all seemed to go well
>>>> except when I typed "make install" as root of course,
>>>> I got this error.
>>>>
>>>> Make: *** no rule to make target install Stop
>>>>
>>> Which HOWTO did you follow?  The CVS howto?  If you're installing 
>>> from cvs
>>> you'll need to do these:
>>>
>>>
>> He must have followed the Installation notes for PCLinuxOS 2010, 
>> which are
>> at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:PCLinuxOS_2010.
>>
>> I went through the installation notes (that I wrote last summer, by the
>> way), and I found the issue.  In the latest version of PCLinuxOS 
>> 2010, when
>> the user gets the terminal in root mode by issuing "su" followed by 
>> the root
>> password, the terminal ends up in the root directory instead of 
>> staying in
>> the directory it was in prior to issuing, "su".
>>
>> So, to resolve the issue reported, the user needs to get to a terminal,
>> issue "su" followed by his root password, then issue "cd
>> /home/username/src/XASTIR/build1" substituting his own username for
>> 'username' above.  The above assumes the user created the 
>> /src/XASTIR/build1
>> path as instructed.    Then issuing "make install" should work 'cause 
>> the
>> user is back in the correct directory.
>>
>> I don't recall that the version of PCLinuxOS 2010 that came out last 
>> summer
>> behaved this way, but if it did, I missed it.  I'll update the HowTo 
>> in the
>> wiki regardless.
>>
>> Lee - K5DAT
>> Murphy, TX
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