On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Frank Niessink wrote:

> 2008/10/25 Jerome Laheurte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> Hi. I've just spent an hour trying to figure out how to test if a
>> Debian package could be installed on an Ubuntu system, without having
>> root privileges. Tried apt-get, aptitude, dpkg. Can't figure it out.
>>
>> Does anybody have a hint about this ?
>
> I don't think it can be done.

Then I'll have to run the buildbot slave under root account and 
actually install the package. Not ideal but better than testing it by 
hand :)

Cheers
Jérôme

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