You actually may have an option. It's dirty, and here be dragons. I know this from working on RPM on AIX, so again, it's hacky. I did this on a CentOS 6.3 box for my example, should work on Fedora.
You can do something like: ls zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm mkdir $HOME/.myrpm cp -pr /var/lib/rpm/* $HOME/.myrpm/ chown -R $USER $HOME/.myrpm/ rpm -Uvh --justdb --dbpath $HOME/.myrpm zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm rpm2cpio < zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv rpm -q --dbpath $HOME/.myrpm zip Results: [vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --dbpath /home/vagrant/.myrpm zip zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64 [vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -q zip package zip is not installed You now have zip installed (and rooted) in $HOME. You'd have to add the --dbpath option to rpm any time you used it, and it would get out of sync with the system rpm database unless you wrote some tooling around that. But it's completely do-able. Again, it's ugly and I don't recommend it. stahnma -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
