Easy "Add/Remove Porgrams" for non-sudoers with local PREFIX?

Reinhard Tartler siretart at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 24 13:44:26 UTC 2007


Carsten Agger <agger at c.dk> writes:

> Like in many packages, you can say
>
> ./configure PREFIX=~/bin
>
> you'll install the package locally and don't need to be superuser. Are
> there any plans to integrate this functionality with synaptic/Add-Remove
> for non-sudoers, or am I missing something?

http://0install.net/ should do exactly what you want.

Note that there are no plans to actively support or promote this in
ubuntu.

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