Re: Is it necessary to be root to install Net-SNMP

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/5/8 Raghavendra Prasad <[email protected]>:
>  I have a problem when I try to install snmp agent as a non-root
> user. It tries to write to some root files. I am under the impression
> with ./configure options it should be possible configure this
> particular need - but I could not get any solution.

If you run
    configure --prefix=/some/path

where you have write access to the /some/path tree,
then you should be able to install as non-root.
   (Though I've not actually tried this myself)

Which files in particular are you having trouble with?

Dave

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