Re: installing .debs in $HOME

2009-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-23 03:18 +0200, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Wouldn't it be neat if users without root privileges could just > install packages anyway on their account. They can extract them using "dpkg-deb -x", but the maintainer scripts will not be run then. There is no guarantee that these scripts

installing .debs in $HOME

2009-06-22 Thread jidanni
Wouldn't it be neat if users without root privileges could just install packages anyway on their account. Maybe they could make an entire file tree, (including /home/nurdsome/home/nurdsome/ ?). The problem I'm trying to solve is e.g., Dreamhost, where there are 1000 debs installed, but root is no