On 01/31/2013 08:40 AM, Michael Stahnke wrote:
You actually may have an option. It's dirty, and here be dragons. I
know this from working on RPM on AIX, so again, it's hacky. I did this
on a CentOS 6.3 box for my example, should work on Fedora.
You can do something like:
ls zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
mkdir $HOME/.myrpm
cp -pr /var/lib/rpm/* $HOME/.myrpm/
chown -R $USER $HOME/.myrpm/
rpm -Uvh --justdb --dbpath $HOME/.myrpm zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio < zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
rpm -q --dbpath $HOME/.myrpm zip
Results:
[vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --dbpath /home/vagrant/.myrpm zip
zip-3.0-1.el6.x86_64
[vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -q zip
package zip is not installed
You now have zip installed (and rooted) in $HOME. You'd have to add
the --dbpath option to rpm any time you used it, and it would get out
of sync with the system rpm database unless you wrote some tooling
around that. But it's completely do-able.
Again, it's ugly and I don't recommend it.
FWIW, we have a similar script for LibreOffice,
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/setup_native/scripts/install_linux.sh>
(inherited from its OpenOffice.org ancestry), and at least back in OOo
times used it frequently to install instances "to the side." Worked
reasonably well.
Stephan
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