They tend to include installation instructions and dependency information that is specific to the package. Best practice is to convert software you download to a installable software package native to your distribution, for instance dpkg or rpm formats.
That will facilitate reporting, upgrading and cleanly removing the software. This is defined in systemd's standard which has the following to say about the directory's contents:. Care should be taken when placing architecture-dependent binaries in this place, which might be problematic if the home directory is shared between multiple hosts with different architectures. Via the software manager apt, synaptic, Gdebi etc.
If you can edit this file, you can also easily change settings for your session this way. When you remove the package, the manager will find all the files and cleanly remove them it stored all the locations in a special text file. But it may preserve some config files, for example the one in your home folder. You download a program usually compressed in a form of pre-compiled binary files for your architecture.
The executable file of the program is usually in a single folder next to other files dynamically linked libraries etc. Now you should be able to run the program by invoking its bin file. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Viewed 65k times. I don't want to make changes system wide. Alternatively, are there any home-directory based linux package managers? Improve this question. See also Non-Root Package Managers. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The first thing to do is to create a basic chroot: debootstrap lenny lenny-chroot This creates a Lenny chroot inside the lenny-chroot directory. Now we can enter the chroot: chroot lenny-chroot Now we can do what ever we want and install anything without it messing up the rest of the system.
Improve this answer. Quoting the docs, Linuxbrew features are: Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo Install software not packaged by the native distribution Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines.
Gentoo prefix does exactly what you want. See a developer's post for some intro. Detailed use cases Installation? Gentoo builds from source, poster seems to want to install via package to a specific directory. That's not really the same thing. AndrewCase Gentoo has packages too I believe. The fact that they aren't binary is irrelevant for the final installation. This is backwards. The question is about how to get package managers which are preferable since the s to behave in this manner.
No, I don't think you can. Another one is to use dpkg -X to extract it on a directory of your choice. There's very few cases where you'd need to install packages to your home folder. I and thousands of other users would whole heartedly encourage this. Something that taps into the already existing system-wide rpm or apt alternative database as well as a user-provided rpm database and install user located rpms. This would be amazing.
This could even be merged into the mainline. Has any research been done on this previously? Andrew Case. The method is partly manual, but I've done my best to make it convenient. Martin Pecka. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
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