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

"Raghavendra Prasad" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> If you run
>     configure --prefix=/some/path
>
I have set this prefix but still it doesn't help

>  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)

Yes I have the PREFIX folder has write permission for non-root user, I
see that many folders and files are written into folder
>
>  Which files in particular are you having trouble with?
>
>
It complains about PERL module, during make install(make works fine)
it tries to write to a root folder(which is related to PERL module). I
was not expecting installation process from a non-root user trying to
write into root folders.

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