improve INSTALL wording (was: Re: PSPP-BUG: Make Check Revealed Error.)

[Ben Pfaff]

Nick Thompson <address@hidden> writes:

> It was pspp-0.4.0. This is what the synaptic thing from Ubuntu automatically
> installed for me. But I couldn't get the GUI to work, so I downloaded
> pspp-0.6.0 and installed that. It worked fine. I won't be able to tell you
> what the other text was above the error message in pspp-0.4.0, because I
> uninstalled it after getting pspp-0.6.0. 

I'm glad that you eventually found a working installation of a
recent version of PSPP.

> One thing that may be of help for people who are trying to use this-but have
> little CS knowledge-is to show them the 'sudo' command if they are running
> Ubuntu. Once I knew about this, I could easily install the file by just
> putting "sudo make install" into the terminal window. Before this was quite a
> bit of frustration. 

Hmm.  What does everyone think of the following patch?

commit 8ea0f0027820d9895689eb50895cbdf24260ff4e
Author: Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Feb 1 20:21:52 2009 -0800

    INSTALL: Add hints about how to obtain root permission.
    
    Suggested by Nick Thompson <address@hidden>.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e687c55..dc673c4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -152,8 +152,9 @@ release.
 
   4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files
      and documentation.  Ordinarily you will need root permissions to
-     do this; if you cannot get root permissions, see "Installation
-     Names", below.
+     do this.  The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain
+     root permissions.  If you cannot get root permissions, see
+     "Installation Names", below.
 
   5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
      source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the

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