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I'm at university and would like to put some annotations in a PDF. Unfortunately, only Evince is installed, but that doesn't allow the creation of annotations.

I'd like to install Okular, but don't have super user access. I assume that I should be able to install it in my user directory without super user access, but don't know how to do it.

Could someone please point out how I would have to go about to install Okular in my user directory without sudo?

I did see How to install programs into user directory without sudo, but it just tells me that I can't use the .deb.

I've also seen How to build application without sudo privileges?, but neither answer actually specifies what I should run .configure on. I assume some kind of source package, but the .deb didn't work.

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you could use the apt-get source command to fetch the source of the package and configure it to install locally. 

apt-get source okular
cd okular*
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

Or using cmake:

cd okular*
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/maythux/opt/ ../okular-4.8.5/

You may be able to download the .deb of okular.

apt-get download okular

Once you have your file run dpkg directly from the command line.

The following example will install okular.deb into your home directory.

dpkg -i --force-not-root --root=$HOME okular_*.deb
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  • I ran apt-get, switched to the directory, but for the ./configure it tells me "File not found". Any idea, what I am doing wrong? Do I have to create that file? – Murch Jun 29 '15 at 09:39
  • Try cmake for okular – Maythux Jun 29 '15 at 09:40
  • Apparently, I am out of luck: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE): ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps. – Murch Jun 29 '15 at 09:47
  • dpkg tells me dpkg: Fehler: Auf den Statusbereich von dpkg kann nicht zugegriffen werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden, roughly translated "cannot access state area of dpkg: File not found". Thanks for your help though. – Murch Jun 29 '15 at 09:52
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If installing Okular locally doesn't work, you could try downloading and Adobe Reader for Linux, and installing it locally. Instructions given on this site here.

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  • Bit of broken window syndrom: You link to a question, which has an answer that links to an article that links a download. ;) Anyway, I tried, but directly trying to execute the .deb requires admin access, while trying the dpkg -i --force-not-root --root=$HOME adbe_*.deb as proposed by Maythux gives me the same error message as for trying to install from okular.deb. – Murch Jun 29 '15 at 11:37