Re: A freak (but not so freak) idea: User space apt-get install
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:38:51PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> A friend of mine came to me with a strange question:
> "Is it possible to apt-get install without being the super user?"
>
> At the first time, I said no. Obvious. But then he said:
> "And if I execute a 'make install', usually I can define the
> installation prefix, so I can install into my home directory"
However, a Debian package is quite a bit more sophisticated than a "make
install".
> I was a little disturbed by the idea, but it did make some sense. I know
> it's strange. But let's think about a lab at college, let's say I need
> to test a software I am doing and that requires another software, and I
> don't want to (or I don't have how to) bother the lab admin to install
> the software.
>
> Then I remembered pbuilder that actually does exactly this. And I
> thought that it may be possible to have an user space apt-get install,
> and even (in some specific cases) desirable.
What pbuilder does is basically the simplest way to do it: give the user a
virtual system (chroot, UML, xen, vserver, what have you), and let them
install software inside there.
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- mdz
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