tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372041.post111753089706124957..comments2013-08-19T18:16:59.871+10:00Comments on Plus Perdu: operating systemsJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107947648278338826noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372041.post-1117719570589017922005-06-02T23:39:00.000+10:002005-06-02T23:39:00.000+10:00Cheers, good plan that. I gave it a go, but for so...Cheers, good plan that. I gave it a go, but for some reason I still have perms issues. I have perms to run yum, and perms on the installdir, but it still claims I need to be root. Very annoying.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01107947648278338826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372041.post-1117583712818707512005-06-01T09:55:00.000+10:002005-06-01T09:55:00.000+10:00May I suggest a solution that people use here at D...May I suggest a solution that people use here at DSTC. Our Linux boxes have a similar setup: no perms to install RPMs but a /local area where we can write to. Best thing to do is to setup a stow tree in your local area. Then all your programs can be downloaded as source and compiled to something like /local/usr/local/stow - remembering to adjust PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and maybe CLASSPATH accordingly. The stow will take care of multiple versions of the same package (e.g. JREs).<BR/><BR/>An even easier way is to use yum - linux's apt-get. You'll have to check if its installed on your dist and perms might still be a problem. Then you can basically 'yum --installroot=/local install jdk' and it should pull down the packages and its dependencies and install it to your locally specified repository.<BR/><BR/>Hope this help, don't give in to the dark side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com