Re: The Library Problem

[Glen Ditchfield]

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> And what if the user doing the install isn't root and can't even write
> in /usr/local?  ... There needs to be some way to re-root the
> install at install time so that you can put gnucash under an arbitrary
> directory without re-configuring and re-building.  Of course that
> means you can't use rpm or deb for that kind of install; need a
> straight tar file.

Is RPM's support for relocatable packages good enough?  
See http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/node80.html.
The location of the configuration file /etc/gnucache/config may be a sticking
point; everything else seems to be under /usr.