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Should I use "sudo" before "make install"?

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I am installing the latest FFmpeg from
this guide:

In some places it suggests performing make install without sudo, here is a single example of several:

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources

wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2

tar xjvf last_x264.tar.bz2

cd x264-snapshot*

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-static --disable-openclcd ~/ffmpeg_sources

wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2

tar xjvf last_x264.tar.bz2

cd x264-snapshot*

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" ./configure --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" --bindir="$HOME/bin" --enable-static --disable-opencl

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" make

make install

make distclean

Should I being using sudo make install instead ?

My intention is to make the packages available for all users, including Apache/PHP.

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answered 2 Years ago hergy · Accepted Answer

In your case you don't need to do a sudo make install as you will install the library in your $HOME. You have configured the build to use a prefix and bindir to install it in your $HOME.

To make the package avaiable to other programs it would be better to choose directories outside of your $HOME. Then you will need to do the make install using sudo.