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#1 2017-06-09 06:53:47
- Amorris
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[SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
Is it possible to install packages per-user instead of system-wide. Or is there a way to install a package without sudo?
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#2 2017-06-09 07:06:46
- jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
This is an X-Y problem: what are you actually trying to achieve?
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#3 2017-06-09 07:08:07
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
-You should probably take this with a grain of salt, I usually don't reply to threads because I lack confidence that what I say is right. But in this 1 case, I had a similar experience once, so I'm fairly sure I'm speaking correctly-
I don't think pacman allows you to do this. If you want to install some package on a per-user basis instead of system-wide, you would have to compile it from source yourself on the user you want the package installed on. I remember dealing with a similar issue with ubuntu, where apt-get wouldn't allow this either.
But that was Ubuntu and this is Arch, so I might be wrong and making a few assumptions here.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman I read this just incase (Which I'm sure you did too) just to look if there was anything about this and I found nothing. So I'm fairly confident that I'm right here.
edit: After thinking about it some more though. I'm not sure how 'safe' what I just suggested would be. I hear installing something behind Pacman's back can lead to unwanted results down the road. So I would probably wait for someone else's take on this lol
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#4 2017-06-09 08:05:18
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
This is an X-Y problem: what are you actually trying to achieve?
Haha (I had some fun reading that web page). I want to install wine. I have tried installing wine from source but I had trouble with it, so I would just like to install the Arch package. So, what I really want to do is install wine however I am not super user. Is it possible to install wine?
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#5 2017-06-09 08:08:00
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Installation
If you are not the administrator of the machine, then no; you will need to ask that person to install it for you.
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#6 2017-06-09 08:09:03
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Installation
If you are not the administrator of the machine, then no; you will need to ask that person to install it for you.
Rightio, thanks.
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#7 2017-06-09 08:10:41
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Re: [SOLVED] Install package for user (without sudo)?
Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.
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