On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 02:00:57PM -0700, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote:
> 
> > > >     If the installer must be run as root, it is precisely because it 
> > > > needs
> > > > to install software in /usr.
> 
> Or into /usr/local which now requires root.  Back in the better days
> of Debian it used to be possible for a user of group staff to install
> into /usr/local without full superuser access.  But that's gone from
> the installation now.
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/484841#62

Or even 

chown -R someresponsibleuser /usr/local

?

-- hendrik
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