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<sect1 id="ch05-installasroot">
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<title>Install all software as user root</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="installasroot.html" dir="chapter05"?>
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<para>It's best to log in as root or su's to root when installing the
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packages. That way you are assured that all files are owned by user and
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group root (and not owned by the userid of the non-root user), and if a
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package wants to set special permissions, it can do so without problems
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due to non-root access.</para>
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<para>The documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc, and other
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packages recommend not to compile the packages as user root. We
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feel it's safe to ignore that recommendation and compile as user root
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anyway. Hundreds of people using LFS have done so without any problems
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whatsoever, and we haven't encountered any bugs in the compile processes
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that cause harm. So it's pretty safe (never can be 100% safe though, so
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it's up to you what you end up doing).</para>
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</sect1>
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