On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, Not sure how to make it more clear - I want to pop open an rpm and put all the files somewhere so that I can execute the code (given appropriate PATH etc. environment variables) without ever using root privilege or touching any of the sensitive shared directories where stuff usually gets put in an ordinary install. It should all end up in my home directory or /tmp, someplace where no other user of that machine would accidentally execute it. Sort of as if I had compiled it in my own home directory from scratch. Any dependencies that were already satisfied would just use the shared instances in the standard locations, since there's no need to change them. But if additional rpms needed to be found & installed, they also would need to be installed in my user space so they don't tromp existing stuff. >you might try the --relocate option. Thanks for the hint, that sounds like a starting point. > Not all RPMs are relocatable, though. Hmmm.... I guess if I was more familiar with RPMs I'd be able to think of better examples. Okay, I am too new. > Another option is to unpack the > RPM using rpm2cpio [1]. That also looks promising. It seems to me that this should be automatable, maybe there's just no demand for it? I am frequently wanting to try out some rpm not built for my exact system or a newer rev without trampling the existing installs. Maybe building my own binary rpm from a source rpm is what I really ought to be looking at? > [1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-miscellania-rpm2cpio.html > -- > Ben Cotton mahalo, Dave _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
