On Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:50:43 NZDT +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > It occurred to me a while ago that I want a package manager that will allow me > to install software and data packages to my home directory as well as the > system at large. > > My main reasons are that: > 0 I want to be able to have one user using unstable packages. > 0 This could be useful to web store type services. > 0 It seems over kill to give someone temporary root access to install a > package that only one user will use.
Good reasons, but not possible. Packages are compiled for a certain location, and few applications support a runtime change of their location. Linux packages are by and large not built to relocate; one of the reasons is that it doesn't work. I see two options for you: Fetch the source package and recompile after changing the location. Obviously this is pointless for anything needing root access. As Helmut said, crank up a VM. I recommend virtualbox, it's very easy to use, unlike that PITA vmware that never works out of the box and stops dead each time your distro updates the kernel. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
