just give sudo permission to the user To accomplish follow this
-> edit /etc/sudoers <username> ALL=/sbin/yum , /sbin/<yum-relate commands> -> save and quit That's it. Have a Great day Jai Linux On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:06 AM, sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > is there any way to install packages using yum without root permission. > as i > > install using source packages in my local directory. > > I guess no. May be you can try if chroot will help you in any ways. > Recently when I came across a similar situation. I had written a small > wrapper which will use yum to just download. Then install it using a rpm > prefix. > > If you can detail your requirement, I can give you a more appropriate > answer. > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
