[gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Harry Putnam]

I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs.  Is there
some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/

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Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Steven S.]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:

> I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs.  Is there
> some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/
>
>

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.
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[gentoo-user] Re: A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Thomas Kirchner]

* 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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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Steven S.]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Thomas Kirchner wrote:

> * 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
>

I'm in the portage group, here's what happens:

steve@adonis ~ $ ROOT="/home/steve/test/" emerge irssi
>>> /home/steve/test/tmp doesn't exist, creating it...
>>> /home/steve/test/var/tmp doesn't exist, creating it...
>>> /home/steve/test/var/lib/portage doesn't exist, creating it...
>>> /home/steve/test//var/cache/edb doesn't exist, creating it...
>>> /home/steve/test//var/cache/edb/dep doesn't exist, creating it...
emerge: root access required.


I can do emerge -p just fine though.
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Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Zac Medico]

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Harry Putnam wrote:
> I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs.  Is there
> some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/

Though I have no experience with it, there's a "Prefixed Portage" that you may be able use: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/targets.xml

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

[Ghaith Hachem]

here's a guide on the gentoo wiki to install the packages without portage

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_install_programs_without_portage

i guess it's the closest you can get if there's a way to do it with
emerge i'd like to know it for sure.

On 2/6/06, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> > I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs.  Is there
> > some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/
>
> Though I have no experience with it, there's a "Prefixed Portage" that you may be able use: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/targets.xml
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