dvipng: Advice for non-privileged users
2.5 Installation for non-privileged users
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Often people without system administration privileges want to install
software for their private use. In that case you need to specify more
options to the 'configure' script, usually this is done by using the
'--prefix' option to the 'configure' script, and let it point to the
personal home directory. In that way, resulting binaries will be
installed under the 'bin' subdirectory of your home directory, manual
pages under 'man' and so on. That way, it is reasonably easy to
maintain a bunch of additional packages, since the prefix argument is
supported by most 'configure' scripts.
You'll have to add something like '/home/myself/bin' to your 'PATH'
shell variable, if it isn't there already, and similarly set the
'INFOPATH' and 'MANPATH' variables to be able to access the
documentation.
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