[lug] Private yum install tree?

[Steve Sullivan]

Many thanks for all the interesting replies.
Since I'm not able to modify the rpms or much of the environment,
it looks to me like I'll spend a lot of time fighting packaging
systems (yum, rpm, etc) that really weren't designed to do this.

So I'm falling back on the tried and true:
  ./configure --prefix=x; make; make install.

Happy New Year!

Steve

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:43:26PM -0700, Steve Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to install software for my use on CentOS 6.3, but I do NOT
> have root access.  Of course I can use ./configure, make, and
> make install.  But it would be so much easier if I could use yum,
> or some other package manager.
> 
> Is there a way to have yum use a private repository,
> and install to a private directory tree?
> 
> I've read the man pages and googled, and found a little on
> setting up secondary yum repos (with root), but I need
> a private non-root install tree.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 

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