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In a user-specified directory? Should the installation script ask where to put it? Or simply ask whether it should be a local or global install?

Another option would be for the user to set GVM_DIR before running the curl command, but that's not a common process for installation.

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Yes, maybe reading it from console (with a question posed, defaulting to $HOME.gvm/).

The install script would then be doing a search/replace of @GVM_DIR@ with sed on the gvm-init.sh script on unpacking the zip.

The only problem with non-default values would be that we need to check that the user has the privileges to write for example to /usr/local.

I'll write up some scenarios first before I start any development.

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Any updates on this issue?

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I think the current focus of work is converting gvm to xvm. That said, if you or anyone else could help create some Cucumber-based scenarios for this feature, that would be great. As @marcoVermeulen said, the feature needs specifying first.

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Totally agree. In the meanwhile, as @pledbrook pointed out, it is possible to set the GVM_DIR environment variable in your bash profile as workaround. I tested this and it works fine.

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@marcoVermeulen Yes I'm doing so currently

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+1 for this feature

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Try as I might, I can't get the GVM_DIR setting to work.

I set export GVM_DIR=/usr/local/gvm in ~/.bashrc. In ~/.bash_profile, I source ~/.bashrc, I delete all gvm stuff, exit the terminal, open a new one, run curl -s get.gvmtool.net | bash and it still writes everything to $HOME/.gvm.

GVM_DIR is hard-coded into the script that curl downloads, so the value I exported isn't used at all.

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Working on it. Should have something out by tomorrow.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 at 07:15 Ben Richardson [email protected]
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Try as I might, I can't get the GVM_DIR setting to work.

I set export GVM_DIR=/usr/local/gvm in ~/.bashrc. In ~/.bash_profile, I source
~/.bashrc, I delete all gvm stuff, exit the terminal, open a new one, run curl
-s get.gvmtool.net | bash and it still writes everything to $HOME/.gvm.

GVM_DIR is hard-coded into the script that curl downloads, so the value I
exported isn't used at all https://stackoverflow.com/a/4609727/2495717.

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