software installation in user's account

[jmss]

Hi there,

I have been dealing with this question for a year. Basically, I would
like to install all software that I want in my user account but I
don't have root access (company policy).

What I have been doing is to download the source packages, configure --
prefix=${HOME}, make, make install, etc., but sometimes dependencies
are troublesome to solve.

Is there any way I can use either yum (this is CentOS 5), pacman, apt-
get, portage, smart, whatever, so that I can workaround these
dependency and sometimes compilation issues?

Basically, I already have a file system hierarchy under my account and
all I want to do is to install software under it. I know package
installation is in principle something for root, but conceptually it
should be possible, since I am the "root" of my account.

Do you have any experience, thoughts, advice on this?

Thanks.

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

configure your user as a sudoer but the trick is, you have to do it as root first
$ visudo

add
user ALL=(ALL) ALL

below
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

*change user to your username

2008/9/5 jmss <joao.m.sa...@gmail.com>

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Regards,

Umarzuki Mochlis
http://umarzuki.com

[jmss]

> configure your user as a sudoer but the trick is, you have to do it as root
> first
> $ visudo

That won't do---it's my work (company) machine :)