Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-25 14:08, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to
> > > install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory.
> > > Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home
> > > directory?
> > You can't.
> >
> > Anyway, why install a *Debian* package, when you should be trying to  
> > install an RPM?
>
> Sometimes (like now, for me), you are on a Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS
> machine administered by someone else and want to use some software
> which is available on Debian with ease. It is tough, because of the
> several dependencies, library requirements etc.; so much that it is
> better to compile the package from source, but sometimes, it might be
> useful to just grab that executable from the Debian package? (I have
> never done this though.

But binary Debian packages also have dependencies, which are 
sometimes named differently than in the RHAT world.

Besides, I *think* that RPMs now have the ability to be installed 
under $HOME.

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