Re: tar install permissions

On Thursday 20 April 2006 20:45, Greg stood up and spoke the following
words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

Hey, I recently tried to install a downloaded tarball and after
following some prompt I found on the net, I apparently messed up my
permissions which locked me out of the X window system.

Okay, first of all, you don't /install/ a tarball. You _unpack_ it...
;-)

When installing tars, can I follow the prompt given?

What do you mean by that?

Do I have to explicitly state the permissions at some stage of the
install?

That depends. Usually not. But again, it's not an /install./
Installing comes afterwards, if the tarball contains a binary
installer, or if it contains files which you yourself need to copy into
place, or if it contains source code which you configure, compile and
install via the normal means...

When I install a tar file, where exactly am I installing the file?

Nowhere. You are unpacking the contents of the tarball into the current
directory, or into a subdirectory which will be created by unpacking
the tarball - i.e. the subdirectory was archived along with the rest.

Lastly, If I install the file as 'root', how is it possible for me to
inadvertantly screw up any permissions?

It is far more possible to screw up permissions as root than as an
ordinary user.

Many thanks,
Greg Meyer

For future reference, please include proper context, error logs,
eventual copy/pasted sections from the commandline terminal where you
are doing what you're doing, and please use correct terminology...

Hope this helps... ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
.

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