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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: TheQuirk on 3 November 2002, 04:04

Title: Local RPM install
Post by: TheQuirk on 3 November 2002, 04:04

Today I was at my dad's office, and he had a few computers there. He needed to do something at the other side of the building, so he left me to use his Windows98 (or NT, or even 2000, I don't remember) computer. Naturally, I downloaded Putty and logged onto my phpwebhosting.com shell account and read the forum, programmed, and what-not. The only problem was that I wanted to install a few RPM's, and I wasn't (and can't be) root. When I compile from source, I just do

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/glezhe

How do I do the same with RPM?

Title: Local RPM install
Post by: mobrien_12 on 3 November 2002, 04:20

There is also a --prefix option for rpm.  However, I believe you are going to have some problems with the fact that you cannot write to the rpm database as a normal user.