Craig L. Ching wrote:
>>It is
>>worth noting
>>that I don't have root on these RedHat boxes which I need to use, so
>>RPMs aren't useful to me and I cannot do anything that requires root.
>>
>>
>>
>I don't know how to do it, but I *think* you can install RPMs without root privileges. You'd need to create your own RPM database that is writable by you and then install into a directory owned by you using your RPM database.
>
>
I haven't tried it for a while but theoretically my RPMs should be
"relocatable" so you could set up RPM do install into some
non-priviledged directory and then install the rpms with the --relocate
(I think) flag. As I said, untested for a long time. I might try this
soon just to see what happens.
- David Summers
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Received on Thu Jan 15 18:22:24 2004