Re: How to install .deb package as non-root user?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:43:57 -0500
Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> wrote:

> 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?

A quick peek through 'man dpkg' suggests 'dpkg --force-not-root'. But
i'm no dpkg expert

Andrei
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