On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Rajesh kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > is there any way to install packages using yum without root permission. > as i > > install using source packages in my local directory. > > I do this a lot of the time on my Debian shared hosting provider > servers. I've installed custom PHP, Python, and lot of other > smaller binaries/applications from the deb binaries directly. > > I have absolutely no root access, so no chroot, sudo or > other hacks. > > I have a ~/opt folder inside which I extract all my debs and > manually move the the files into place. > > Set $PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for the .so libraries), and > set manually the config file path to your binaries eg. > "-c ~/opt/etc/foo.conf". > > You'll have to manually resolve pkg dependencies, etc. > > The same method should work for any linux distro. > > What applications/packages are you wanting to install? > > I have installed apt-rpm locally but still it depends on root repos, where can i change this [rkarthige...@pc176 ~]$ apt-get install zlib E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/ E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
