[Insight-users] root privileges

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Jan 17 08:37:04 EST 2005


RJ Stevens wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm running OSX.3.7 at work and i do not have root
> privileges. I have been able to make ITK and VTK and FLTK, but not
> make install. I do not believe this to be a problem, but i haven't
> been able to make ITK applications due to an access error.  Is root
> privileges absolutely necessary or can i change the destination of
> some files in cmakecache.txt file?

Run ccmake again and change "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" to point at some 
place to which you have write access.  Alternatively it is possible to 
use these libraries (at least VTK and ITK) directly out of the build 
tree without an install.

-Brad


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