On Dec 25, 2007 12:52 AM, Hugo Heden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 24, 2007 2:44 PM, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carsten Agger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Like in many packages, you can say > > > > > > ./configure PREFIX=~/bin > > > > > > you'll install the package locally and don't need to be superuser. Are > > > there any plans to integrate this functionality with synaptic/Add-Remove > > > for non-sudoers, or am I missing something? > > > > http://0install.net/ should do exactly what you want. > > > > Note that there are no plans to actively support or promote this in > > ubuntu. > > > > There other attempts (if I understand all this correctly?) to solve > the Linux Software Installation Problem (LSIP)[1], of which the > installing-software-as-non-root is part. > > o) Glick: http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/glick/ (promising but project is > currently both young and inactive -- pretty much just a little > experiment?) > > o) klik: http://klik.atekon.de/ and > http://klik.atekon.de/wiki/index.php/Klik2 (promising and active. They > have a lot of thinking going on regarding the difference between the > "base system" and "applications". However, AFAIK the solution seems to > depend on a central server for software, which I think is a weakness > -- software vendors should be able to bundle and publish the software > themselves -- the most fundamental part of the LSIP) > > o) CNR (Click aNd Run): http://cnr.com/ > > o) And of course, there is getdeb.net, but AFAIK they do not attempt > to solve the installing-software-as-non-root part of the LSIP. > > A little off topic: For more on the LSIP, see Ian Murdocks blog post > "Software installation on Linux: Today, it sucks" -- > http://ianmurdock.com/?p=388 -- and the rather more hopeful follow-up > on http://ianmurdock.com/?p=391 . > > > Best regards > Hugo Heden > > [1] "LSIP": Ok, ok, I just made that acronym up (to make the point > that I seriously think the concept is worth an acronym -- IMHO this > needs to be worked on in order to fix Bug #1. I've been lurking on > this list for a year, and I am a little concerned that there is so > little talk about this.) >
Oh, let me stress that I do *not* think the situation is any better with MS Windows, that was *not* the point I was making. I am only occasionally using MS Windows, and don't really know much about it. (The latter is also true for Linux.) Also, there was a short discussion about the LSIP on the Ubuntu Forums a year ago that I liked: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=330430 . But this is perhaps getting too off topic. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
