On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:33:48PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > the subject says it all. Can I (or maybe even a user w/o > root privileges) install a .deb in a safe place? Of course, > this would not work for daemons or libc, but it would be > very useful for some tools and libs. It would be very sad > to not have all the power of Debians dpkg/apt if it comes > to local installation! But I didn't see anything about it > in the manual pages - did I miss it? i don't think so, i was looking into installing half of a debian system in the confines of my home directory on a linuxppc 2000 box (linuxppc is rather broken so i wanted to replace all the broken crap with usable debian stuff, but i don't have root) i could not get dpkg to let me do much of anything like that non-root though. if you have root you can have dpkg chroot itself somewhere else and maintain seperate databases and everything. i think that is as close as you will get. it would be cool if .debs could be installed in the confines of a user's $HOME but i think it would severly complicate packaging policy... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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