Can a regular user install his own software?

[zishuai]

If use RPM, how to write the arguments?
If compile the source, need I change the source files?
I tried to install uucp as a regular user,
rpm -ivh uucp*****.rpm
and bash configure
both told me ACCESS DENIED.
Please help me.
Thank you very much.
:confused:

[undef]

sometimes the package you want to install copy files to locations where a regular user might not have a read/write access to. if that is the case then you will not be able to install the package using RPM. try compiling from the source code but you will have to do a lot of editting.

[Unruly]

The only way a user, by his or her self, could use their own exclusive software, is to have some precompiled binaries in their home directory (what I used to do with StarOffice) and run it from there...

source would require changing locations of files and such... not fun

rpms or other precompiled packs are much in the same boat as precompiled source.

[bdg1983]

And in future, please do not crosspost for obvious reasons... Thank-you

[X_console]

If you compile from source, use the --prefix option during ./configure so you can tell it where you want the software installed. Eg:

./configure --prefix=/home/xconsole/software

[element-x]

and then add

/home/xconsole/software/bin
to your PATH environment variable.