Re: Installing Gnome into home-directory

[Arkaitz <>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:10:38PM -0700, Loban Rahman wrote:
> 
> I want to install gnome on a debian machine. I don't have root access and
> so I want to install it in my home directory. Of course the simplest
> thing to do would be do compile from source using the --prefix=~/usr
> tag, but I'd like to be able to install prebuilt binaries if possible.
> 
> Is it possible? If so, how? (I know rpm and dpkg can relocate packages, but
> I haven't had too much success with them, meaning I might be using them
> wrong.)

I don't know about the debian packages in particular, but the rpms for RedHat are not relocatable, so there's no way of installing them anywhere else.
Note that if you manage to install them in you home directory, you'll probably have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to your new libraries first.

Cheers,

Arkaitz.