CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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pogibas
pogibas

Reputation: 28329

Install packages and libraries in a local directory on server

I have accession to universities server: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 6.2.

My work is to test various scientific analysis programs.

I have no problem untar'ing and running them in my local directory. But most of them have lots of dependencies (perl libraries, RE2, GNU SL, glibc.i686 ) - whenever I try to install those dependencies I come up with the permission problem.

All of those packages require root to install.

Is there a way how can I install various different packages only in my local directory without asking root to install them system wide?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 655

Answers (1)

Fred Foo
Fred Foo

Reputation: 363547

Yes, but the procedure varies per package. Many modern Unix packages have a configure script that you must run, which takes a --prefix option + argument specifying where the package should be installed. A directory such as $HOME/pkg would be a good options for these. Other configuration/building/installation scripts have similar options.

When building a package with dependencies, make sure you have $HOME/pkg/bin in your PATH, $HOME/pkg/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and pass -I$HOME/pkg/include and -L$HOME/pkg/lib to the compiler and linker, respectively. E.g., put the following in your shell startup file (.bashrc for Bash):

PATH=$HOME/pkg/bin:$PATH
CFLAGS=-I$HOME/pkg/include
LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/pkg/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/pkg/lib

(You shouldn't have to install glibc, ever.)

Upvotes: 2

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