just a quick helpful tip about the older fedora's, sudo works just fine in the newer ones.
there are often permissions issues when user's programs are installed as root which is why the sudo command is so important.
To get around this in the older Fedoras you could use
su -c "whatever commands between the quotes"
su -c "yum install yumex irlicht cmake"
Etc.
This means that the user is installing with root permissions instead of root doing the install.
A bit outdated now but might be helpful to someone.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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Re: Compiling Minetest On Fedora 17
Going with SU vs SUDO was a stylistic descision. You need root privs to perform the installation of ancilliary packages and also to move the program directory after compilation. It doesn't hurt anything (in this case) to compile as root, and it saved having to put in your password a second time.
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Re: Compiling Minetest On Fedora 17
I've updated the above script to compile on Fedora 23. Somewhere between F20 and F23, they went from using YUM for package updating to DNF. Fun.
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