From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2001-06-21T16:01:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16678] Re: installation option

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001  06:14:34 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> A couple of years back I reorganized my machine so I no longer need
> root access to install common packages. I created a directory tree
> (which I own), in my case starting at '/tc'. I then configure the
> packages with
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=/tc/usr

or, for multi-user machines where one cannot write /, create a ~/usr,
configure with

  configure --prefix=$HOME/usr

and add ~/usr/bin to $PATH.

        Michel