The standard installation procedure explained in Chapter 2, Installation uses root account. You can install the software in a home directory using a normal user account, for instance lixa. To specify an alternative installation path you have to use --prefix option at configure time.

The following steps show how you can install the software in lixa home directory.

lixa@ubuntu:~$ ls -l
total 1520
-rw-r--r-- 1 lixa lixa 1550959 2011-12-18 21:25 lixa-0.5.36.tar.gz
lixa@ubuntu:~$ tar xzf lixa-0.5.36.tar.gz
lixa@ubuntu:~$ cd lixa-0.5.36

lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ ./configure --prefix=/home/lixa/prod
[...]
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands

lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ make install
[...]
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lixa/lixa-0.5.36'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lixa/lixa-0.5.36'

lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ ls -la /home/lixa/prod/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 9 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:29 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:28 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:29 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:29 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:29 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:30 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 lixa lixa 4096 2011-12-18 21:29 var

lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/lixa/prod/lib
lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ /home/lixa/prod/sbin/lixad --daemon
lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ ps -ef|grep lixad|grep -v grep
lixa     23493     1  0 21:32 ?        00:00:00 /home/lixa/prod/sbin/lixad --daemon

lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/lixa/prod/bin
lixa@ubuntu:~/lixa-0.5.36$ lixat
tx_open(): 0
tx_close(): 0
      

Installing LIXA using a non root account has some advantages:

and some disadvantages: