Why not just take a copy of the global installation into your own space? Assuming you have 2.5G free space...
John On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Martin Rubey <martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de> wrote: > Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> writes: > >> On 11/8/10 7:34 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: >>> is there a possibility for installing optional packages on top of a >>> existing *global* sage installation *locally*, i.e., without root >>> rights? >>> >>> I tried >>> >>> sage -f foo.spkg >>> >>> but it failed of course with permission denied... >> >> >> That would be a very interesting idea; a "shadow" SAGE_LOCAL that >> took precedence over the normal SAGE_LOCAL. I can see that also >> being useful for testing spkgs, for example. >> >> Martin: I don't know of a way to do that, and I imagine it would take >> a bit of work to implement and take care of any issues with each >> spkg. > > OK, thanks for your very rapid answer anyway! I'll have to go to the > sysadmin then :-( > > Martin > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
