Re: dpkg and user install mode
Olivier Billet <billet@email.enst.fr> wrote:
>I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not
>as root.
Not unless you build them from source yourself. Installing packages from
the archive into your home directory and having them work has been on
the dpkg wishlist for a long time, but requires changes to many, many
packages to support this before it can happen. Look in the debian-policy
archives, as there was a discussion about this recently.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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