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From: Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:51:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060206205158.GB18841@halffull.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602061231540.10843@adonis.lannet>

* On Feb  6 12:34, Steven S. (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You 
> should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball yourself, you 
> could then run the configure and install scripts, giving it the 
> location of where to install.

You can join the "portage" group to use most emerge functions as a 
non-root user.  You should be able to set the $ROOT variable to "~" to 
install things to your home directory, though I haven't tried it... ROOT 
is normally "/"; it controls where files go after the sandbox.

Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-06 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-06 16:51 [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv Harry Putnam
2006-02-06 20:34 ` Steven S.
2006-02-06 20:51   ` Thomas Kirchner [this message]
2006-02-06 21:01     ` [gentoo-user] " Steven S.
2006-02-06 21:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Zac Medico
2006-02-07  5:19   ` Ghaith Hachem

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