CentOS - Aug 2012 - yum relocatable RPMs

Hello,

I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk)
in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ?



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Am 26.08.2012 um 15:51 schrieb Rita:
> Hello,
> 
> I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk)
> in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ?

AFAIK - no. But checkout the manual for rpm.

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On 08/26/12 6:51 AM, Rita wrote:
> I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk)
> in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ?
no.  rpm installed packages have to be listed in the system catalogs so 
package management can keep track of them.   have your system manager 
install them, or build your own from tarballs specifying to install in 
your home dir (typically a --prefix= option on ./configure, but that 
heavily depends on the package and how its built).



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On Sunday, August 26, 2012 09:51:27 AM Rita wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk)
> in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ?
In a nutshell, yes, it should be possible.  It will be complicated, and might
even be very complicated, but it actually sounds like a 'different from
normal' application of mock or mock's predecessor, 'mach'.  This
is not the only way to do this sort of thing, but if you want to use yum to do
the install.....

I do not have a specific procedure, but I can point you to a rather interesting
document about running a Debian userland on top of SuSE linux at:
http://www.network-crawler.de/index.php/Debian_within_SuSE (as a note, I learned
about this even being possible at
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16725842&p=7344235#p7344235
and then googled from there....).

This uses chroot to do its magic.  (seems I've read this really recently on
another list..... :-) ).

There are limits to how far you can take this, but that document is a start at
understanding the mechanics that make it work, and for what you want to do, if
using yum is a requirement, this may be the way to do it (just not using Debian
on SuSE, but something RPM-based on CentOS).

The other recommendation of installing things via tarball is quite a bit simpler
to set up, but will be more complicated to maintain and update over time.