Is it possible to install a package for just the current user (placing files in locations that the user can write to, such as their home directory)?
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1Is there any way to get APT to install packages to my home directory? – bain Aug 05 '14 at 23:44
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It is not possible to install a package in a way that it would run correctly. The closest thing you could get to this is running apt-get inside a virtual machine or LXC container run by a normal unprivileged user. If you want to just unpack the .deb package, you can use dpkg -x archive.deb target_directory, but the installation scripts will not be run, and it will not be installed to the filesystem root.
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As I thought. Compiling the sources directly will be necessary in any of these cases. – Kat Aug 06 '14 at 15:54
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If you run Ubuntu in a VM or LXC container you can install binary packages to the root of the VM disk (which is either a file or directory in the host). – bain Aug 06 '14 at 16:15