Re: Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:07:11AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 20-May-02, 14:18 (CDT), Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:27:22AM -0700, John Richardson wrote:
> > > Can a Package be installed that only effects 1 user account?
> >
> > Just unpack it (using 'dpkg -x' if you like) in that user's home
> > directory, and adjust that user's $PATH to use it.
>
> While that may work for packages with isolated executables, I doubt
> that egcs will; doesn't gcc et. al. build in paths to various internal
> executables and libraries?
Isn't this pretty much the same thread as the "/hurd" topic? There's
more than enough background there! :-)
I've got to do the same thing with perl, where a client is insisting
on 5.005 and we need latest greatest for DBI/ODBC. -x isn't going to
help me with @INC. I'm thinking it will be easier to build my own perl
from CPAN or deb src files.
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