I just upgraded my linux machine to Red Hat 4.7 (we cannot use a newer version than this because the application we are using does not run on Red Hat 5).
I'm not the root so I cannot install any apps via rpm, and I cannot sudo either.
Is there a way to install the latest version of KDE, for example KDE 4.2, with these constraints?
Regards
Yes you could download the source and install it in your home, and then you will have to change paths....
@ Avery Payne :
Will need to add any pathing necessary to make sure that your private libraries load - you're not trying to install libraries to /usr/lib or/lib are you?
Yes I can not write in those directories , so I have to install it under my home or work1.
@ Avery Payne :
Know in advance how you want to install it into your home directory
Yeah that is the question , so I want to now how can I do that ????
A convention for programs is to accept a --prefix flag to ./configure, e.g.
./configure --prefix=/home/user/apps/kde
make
make install
Can't say that I've tried that with KDE though, don't know its build process.
