make install to my home - shell account

[xdrone]

i have a shell account at an ISP and wanted to install htmldoc.

each time i make install the system tries to copy the binary to the usr/bin folder and i get a "permission denied" message for obvious reasons.

is there a way to make intall the binary to my home directory?

thanks for your help.

p.s. yes, i did specify --prefix my config.

[nalg0rath]

If I understand the problem correctly the following should fix it:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/***/dir --bindir=/home/***/dir/bin

[Lordshooter]

It does look and sound to me, as if you have a few things mixed up.

As far as I have learned in the last few days about my own Linux OS, I conclude the following:

1.) The folders /usr and /bin that you mention, are already in the home directory.

2.) There is no such folder: /usr/bin. There is a folder /usr, and there is a folder /bin.
These are two different folders.

Further, I recommend, not having this work done by your ISP, but doing it yourself.
That way, you have better control, can play around, experiment, go back and fore, try again, in a different way, till you got it right. And that would be much faster done, than if you have to correspond/communicate with your ISP, and sometimes you can't reach him within reasonable time.

It is very easy to install/copy a document inside a folder: Choose first a good package tool. With this tool you should be able to do it.
By doing these things yourself, you will learn a lot of useful things, so that you will mostly be able to do good and quick troubleshooting.

A ISP could be good for storing data, instead on to your HDD, but a ISP might not be the right thing, for what you just are trying to do, and got stuck.

Have a great weekend.

Alexander

[nalg0rath]

Please don't take this as bashing, I just want to help you learn.

1.) The folders /usr and /bin that you mention, are already in the home directory.

No, that is not right. The '/usr' and '/bin' directories are located in your root directory. The root directory is written as '/' only. This should not be mistaken for the '/root'-directory which is the home directory for the root user.

Each user(in the normal case) has its own home directory, and they are located in /home. If you
have the username 'me' your home directory would probably be '/home/me'.

There can be a directory named 'usr' or 'bin' anywhere in the system, for example there's a bin directory in '/usr'. Though, when you write '/usr' or '/bin', you should be refering to the ones that are located in the /-directory (root dir), hence the preceding '/'.

2.) There is no such folder: /usr/bin. There is a folder /usr, and there is a folder /bin.
These are two different folders.

In absolutely most cases a /usr/bin directory on Unix systems and definatly one on a GNU/Linux system. But there is also a '/usr'-directory and a '/bin'-directory.

Further, I recommend, not having this work done by your ISP, but doing it yourself.
That way, you have better control, can play around, experiment, go back and fore, try again, in a different way, till you got it right. And that would be much faster done, than if you have to correspond/communicate with your ISP, and sometimes you can't reach him within reasonable time.

With this I agree, often there are evens pretty strict rules of what you are allowed to do. In many cases you are not allowed to install programs in your home directory (security reasons).

[xdrone]

adding bindir args to config created the binary in the correct place - my home folder. thanks for your help!