[Insight-developers] [Fwd: Re: [Insight-users] Beginning installation question]

[Luis Ibanez]

That will be great.

Recent questions about installation are mostly
about selecting directories correctly.

How about also adding this to the FAQ ?

   Luis

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Mark Foskey wrote:

> I have been arguing that we should have a more explicit README, giving 
> exactly the default directory to unpack cmake into.  What do people think?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Beginning installation question
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bill Oliver <billo@Radix.Net>
> To: Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez@kitware.com>
> CC: insight-users@public.kitware.com
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
>  > From: Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez@kitware.com>
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi Bill,
>  >
>  > A lateral comment first:
>  >
>  >   are you doing this intallation while
>  >   being logged as "root" ?
>  >   It may be better to be logged as a normal user...
>  >   This should not be the source of the error though.
> 
> 
> Normally I do, but I tend to install system-wide packages
> as root.  I have had problems with installation scripts
> into /usr/local, etc. when logged in as billo.
> 
> 
>  > It looks like you created a subdirectory on the
>  > top directory of the Insight source tree and tried
>  > to use it as a binary dir.
> 
> 
> Nope.  I just found the error -- it turns out that I had
> installed cmake wrong.  I had installed the cmake files
> in /usr/local/cmake, and when I ran cmake, it couldn't
> find the stuff in /usr/local/cmake/share.  I moved
> the /usr/local/cmake/bin files to /usr/local/bin and
> the /usr/local/cmake/share stuff to /usr/local/share,
> and it seems to be chugging along right now.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> billo
> 
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