Install package on Debian without root
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:41 pm
I'm currently using DreamHost, which allows shell access. Of course, they don't give you root. I have little to no experience using Unix systems... and now...
::sighs::
I have a debian package named lilypond_2.6.3-9_i386.deb. What I would like to do is install it inside my user directory, and then updating my Path so that a call for a program would look inside that directory. Once again, I don't have root.
I ran this command:
And it created a usr/bin folder with a few binaries in it. So I try executing a binary...
Dependencies... ugh. Any idea where I should go from here (Debian's automatic dependency checking won't help me... argh...)
::sighs::
I have a debian package named lilypond_2.6.3-9_i386.deb. What I would like to do is install it inside my user directory, and then updating my Path so that a call for a program would look inside that directory. Once again, I don't have root.
I ran this command:
Code: Select all
dpkg --extract lilypond_2.6.3-9_i386.deb ./Code: Select all
[fig]$ lilypond
lilypond: error while loading shared libraries: libguile.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory