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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing Software Post 302285433 by pludi on Monday 9th of February 2009 02:05:31 AM
Old 02-09-2009
That depends on the size of the program itself and it's dependencies, and how useful this software might be to other users.
My rule of thumb would be: If possible, ask the admin if there's a policy regarding installing software and go by that. If there's none: if it's a large application (think GCC) and/or it has a lot of dependencies (lots of libraries and/or large libraries), ask the admin. If it's useful for other users, ask the admin.
 

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shares-admin(1) 						   User Commands						   shares-admin(1)

NAME
shares-admin - Enables the configuration of shared NFS / SMB directories. SYNOPSIS
shares-admin [--add-share=PATH] [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
shares-admin enables a user to configure the sharing of directories / filesystems. These can be shared using either NFS or SAMBA. This is linked to the ability to right-click on a directory in Nautilus and select "Share folder". OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a, --add-share=PATH Configure a share for the specified PATH. gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa- tion. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application. example% shares-admin Example 2: Sharing a specific directory. example% shares-admin --add-share=/export/home/shared EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/shares-admin Executable for directory sharing configuration. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/shares Backup directory for files that are modified. /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/shares Debug logs can be found under here. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Uncommitted | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. users-admin(1), network-admin(1), services-admin(1), time-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), attributes(5) NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 shares-admin(1)
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