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nutnoob

Member

Registered: 2005-03-31

Posts: 14

installing pacman in dreamhost

I have a shell account from dreamhost.com.
Since i don't have root privilege, i have  a trouble installing pacman.

mkdir ~/vroot #virtual root. where i want to install pacman.
cd ~/downloads/pacman-2.9.8
./configure --prefix=~/vroot
make
make install

everything is fine except when I envoke make install.
it tries to install /etc/pacman.conf and other stuff outside ~/vroot, directly to /etc.

Is there a way to configure pacman so that default configuration stuff will be put to ~/vroot/etc/ instead of /etc?

Or, is there a better way to install softwares in $HOME directory without root privilege?

Thank you.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: installing pacman in dreamhost

those are hardcoded, grep arround to find them and modify them to be in ~ ..

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: installing pacman in dreamhost

You know that that's not going to work, right?
You're going to have one hell of a time using pacman properly on dreamhost - they use an older kernel, and thus, and older glibc, and many many more things.  Unless you recompile numerous arch packages (due to the fact that they use kernel 2.4, you'll need to recompile glibc and a handful of other things) AND maintain your own repo, it just won't work.

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