Library path question

[Joseph Kubik]

You say you cannot execute the application by doing:
/home/untar_dir/progname
???
-Joseph-

On 8/13/05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   Having gotten a digital camera recently, I will admit to taking the
> (ahem) occasional not-quite-perfect (cough cough) picture that could
> stand a little bit of touching up via Gimp.  Since each successive
> save+reload of JPEGs loses quality in the translation, the best approach
> is to start with the TIFF.  Use JPEG only to upload final results to
> hobbyist photo websites, where a 14.5 meg TIFF would not be appreciated.
> Since libtiff doesn't read exif data from TIFFs, Gimp (which uses
> libtiff) can't access or save the exif data to any JPEG copies of the
> same file.
> 
>   To the rescue comes "exiftool",a perl module that can read and write a
> whole bunch of metadata, including exif.  My use right now is copying
> exif data from TIFFs to their JPEG descendants.
> 
>   One thing I noticed is that when you uncompress the tarball, the
> commandline utility can be run without installing if you cd to to the
> directory containing it.  To get it to run from anywhere, you need to
> 
>    perl Makefile.PL
>    make
>    make test
>    make install
> 
> with the last step requiring root access.  I assume this copies libs to
> some place on the libpath?  Would it be possible to just uncompress it
> to a regular user's directory, and append the path to LIBPATH, or
> whatever?
> 
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