Installing as non-root

Desktop Ruby-Gnome 2
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Hello,

I'm using ubuntu, but ubuntu like debian only has ruby-gnome2 0.15

in its repositories. I need to run 0.16; I could install from source,
but I would like to avoid writing on my / partition myself (not to
confuse apt). Is it possible to install ruby-gnome2 as a normal user, in
my home directory somewhere, without touching “/”?

I did not see steps to do that in the installation documentation of

the distribution? It is possible to install gems as a user, you don’t
need for that to override system-wide files, but I’m not sure for
ruby-gnome2?

Thank you!

emmanuel

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Hi,

In [email protected]
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Installing as non-root” on Fri, 19 Jan 2007
12:14:33 +0100,
Emmanuel T. [email protected] wrote:

I'm using ubuntu, but ubuntu like debian only has ruby-gnome2 0.15

in its repositories. I need to run 0.16; I could install from source,
but I would like to avoid writing on my / partition myself (not to
confuse apt). Is it possible to install ruby-gnome2 as a normal user, in
my home directory somewhere, without touching “/”?

I did not see steps to do that in the installation documentation of

the distribution? It is possible to install gems as a user, you don’t
need for that to override system-wide files, but I’m not sure for
ruby-gnome2?

Try DESTDIR environment variable:

% DESTDIR=$HOME/local make install

Thanks,

kou

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