Newbie: installation of stable snapshot

Torfinn Ottesen torfinn.ottesen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 11:51:24 UTC 2007


Both issues was already fixed in the hourly snapshot, developer branch.
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On 2/19/07, Torfinn Ottesen wrote:
> OS: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
> I downloaded and installed the hourly snapshot of the latest version,
> stable branch. I did the system wide install: '$ sudo python setup.py

> Q1. The documentation, man pages was not installed so I:
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> Q2: In Makefile it says PREFIX=/usr/local. I have tried
> reading my way through Makefile and setup.py to understand
> why the programs ends up in '/usr/bin', why?



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