On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:29:27 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> And what system lets you install applications and change settings that
>>> *doesn't* let you screw things up?
>> 
>>   MacOS X?
> 
> OK, fair enough.  Altho I'd be surprised if you could install
> applications without screwing up your system. See the new Mac OsX trojan
> floating around.
> 
>>   Most unix programs can be installed locally. If some can't, they are
>> stupid.
> 
> I don't know how to do this from an RPM.

Generally, you can't - though if you use something like rpm2cpio to 
convert it to a cpio archive, you can then unpack it and configure things 
to run locally.  Alien might also be able to help you out with this as 
well.

This is one thing I like about Autopackage, actually - it will do non-
root installs and set things up for you.

Jim

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