How to install .deb package as non-root user?
How can one install .deb package as non-root user? I see a 'dpkg --root'
parameter, but it doesn't seem to help (as per below).
Redhat's rpm can install with an non-root account; why not
dpkg/apt/wajig...or maybe one of these things can do this somehow and I
don't know about it?
I'm part of a software development team that plans to produce Debian
packages. However, one of our requirements is to be able to support
non-root installs of our software (to a user's home directory, for
example). I would be quite disappionted if the Debian package system can
not support this.
Are there any workarounds if Debian packages can not do this? Will
alien-rpm support non-root installs with .rpm's on Debian?
-Matt
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 18> dpkg --root ~ -i
libboost-filesystem1.32.0_1.32.0-6_i386.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 19> whoami
mengland
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 20> pwd
/home/mengland
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 21> dpkg --root /home/mengland -i
libboost-filesystem1.32.0_1.32.0-6_i386.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 22> cat /etc/iss
issue issue.net
mengland@localhost 1:30pm [~] 22> cat /etc/issue
mengland@localhost 1:31pm [~] 23> uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
mengland@localhost 1:38pm [~] 24> file
libboost-filesystem1.32.0_1.32.0-6_i386.deb
libboost-filesystem1.32.0_1.32.0-6_i386.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0)
mengland@localhost 1:38pm [~] 25>
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