From bef869ff76ec7302423f5a77a4f3cb0897eeda68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20Mr=C3=A1zek?= Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:29:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about MultiMC not working in system folders to build instructions. Fix #185 --- BUILD.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md index bd17541d..553a44e5 100644 --- a/BUILD.md +++ b/BUILD.md @@ -2,10 +2,18 @@ Build Instructions ================== # Contents +* [Note](#note) * [Linux](#linux) * [Windows](#windows) * [OS X](#os-x) +# Note + +MultiMC is a portable application and is not supposed to be installed into any system folders. +That would be anything outside your home folder. Before runing `make install`, make sure +you set the install path to something you have write access to. Never build this under +an administrator/root level account. Don't use `sudo`. It won't work and it's not supposed to work. + # Linux Getting the project to build and run on Linux is easy if you use Ubuntu 13.10 (or 13.04) and Qt's IDE, Qt Creator.