http://people.debian.org/~dexter/fakeroot/
This is very dirty hack, but it works. I mean you can use debootstrap on your user account without root privileges. An example session from my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fakeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/sbin/chroot /tmp/fakeroot /bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/fakeroot# cd / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=1001(dexter) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install libfreetype6-dev Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: libfreetype6 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 943kB of archives. After unpacking 28.7kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 20462 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libfreetype6-dev 2.1.3+2.1.4rc2-5 (using .../libfreetype6-dev_2.1.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libfreetype6-dev ... Preparing to replace libfreetype6 2.1.3+2.1.4rc2-5 (using .../libfreetype6_2.1.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libfreetype6 ... Setting up libfreetype6 (2.1.4-1) ... Warning: Fake ldconfig called, doing nothing Setting up libfreetype6-dev (2.1.4-1) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Have a good fun! -- Piotr Roszatycki, Netia Telekom S.A. .''`. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' `-