On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:49 PM, David Burns <tdbtdb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I want to do is to take an rpm, and install it in my personal > home directory without using root privileges, for my own use only. Is this > possible? What sort of keywords should I use to find this in the > documentation or when searching with google? > If I understand your question, you might try the --relocate option. Not all RPMs are relocatable, though. Another option is to unpack the RPM using rpm2cpio [1]. There may also be other options that the smarter people on the list can share :-) [1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-miscellania-rpm2cpio.html -- Ben Cotton _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
