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

2008/5/9 Raghavendra Prasad <raghavendra.p@gmail.com>:
>> Or else tweak the top-level Makefile to remove "perlinstall" from
>> the OTHERINSTALL list.
> This works, but at the cost of disfunctional mib2c.

OK - so install the perl modules (manually) into a suitable location,
and tweak the @INC search list to look there.


> May I conclude that being root user is a necessity to install Net-SNMP?

Being root is nessary for an automatic install of the Net-SNMP perl modules
(and hence for running anything that relies on these, like mib2c).
It is not necessary for a private install of the rest of the Net-SNMP suite.

Dave

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