off topic help

Takashi Oe toe at unlserve.unl.edu
Tue Aug 3 04:27:14 EST 1999


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I apologize in advance for asking offtopic question.
> 
> * can I run rpm without Super user previlege?
> * how can I install the package other then /usr/local?

Try rpm's --root option.  If you just need to extract binaries from a
package, try rpm2cpio + cpio.


Takashi Oe


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