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		ezequiel-garzon on July 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect se... Why is it necessary to use sudo to install this?

throwawaymobule on July 22, 2023 [–]

It puts the resulting file into /usr/local/bin. You can run it without sudo if you already can write there for some reason.

Or, define $DESTDIR if I'm reading the makefile correctly.

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