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.
>
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