[Linux-disciples] Installing a Debian package without root access

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 09:03:53PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I have a simple desire right now: I want to install realpath
> on a remote machine to which I don't have root access.
> Suppose for the moment that it's not as easy as just copying
> the single file /usr/bin/realpath to the remote machine.
> Imagine that I were copying a more complicated package over
> -- something like Firefox. I want to create the entire
> Debian tree -- whatever is necessary to run Firefox -- under
> ~/bin. How would I do this?

You might need to rebuild the package with the new paths.

Alternatively, you could just extract the DEB where you are:

ar x package.deb
tar xfz data.tar.gz

This won't work, however, if shared libraries, etc., are involved.

You can't really do Debian package management as non-root, unless someone
has given you your own sandbox where you are, in fact, root.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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