I’m reposting this, it’s what I used to install mcabber on dreamhost:
From your home directory:
mkdir bin lib tmp chmod 777 tmp chmod 755 bin lib
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig" >> ~/.bash_profile echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
cd ~/tmp wget ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.19/glib-2.19.8.tar.gz tar -xvzf glib-2.19.8.tar.gz cd glib-2.19.8 ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install
glib should now be installed. If you ran into any errors fix those before moving on.
cd ~/tmp wget http://mcabber.com/files/mcabber-0.9.9.tar.bz2 bunzip2 mcabber-0.9.9.tar.bz2 cd mcabber-0.9.9 ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install
Then follow these directions to set up.
Per the comments, remember to delete your tmp dir when you’re done. Or else don’t chmod 777 this directory.
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nooo! never ever ever chmod 777 anything in your homedir. Whatever process you’re running will run as you and therefore only needs write permission as your user. chmod 777′ing a directory creates a fairly large security hole because anyone else on the system can write to it for any reason whatsoever.
Don’t do it, it’s a bad idea.
Don’t get your panties in a knot, Jeremy, it’s a tmp dir. As in, temporary.
I guess next time just make it abundantly clear that you are deleting the temp directory that you created.
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