On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:08:12PM -0500, 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.
I find in these situation rpmfind.net to be very helpful - this is also
the situation I am thankful I work with debian :)
Alex
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