Sometime, you connect to a server and a library is not installed, or maybe you are a student in an university
and you need to install some application that would take a snap using apt, but there is one problem… you
are not root!
Here I introduce a (hacky) solution that you can try out to install packages in your user area, with the comfort of apt command.
Quick tutorial
First clone the notroot repository:
git clone https://github.com/Gregwar/notroot.gitNow add this line in your .bashrc file:
source "$HOME/notroot/bashrc"And reload bash.
You can now give a try to notroot install [your package], for example:
# Installing a package, here some json libraries (example)
notroot install libjsoncpp-dev libjsoncpp0Everything will be installed under your notroot/ directory, and the bashrc script you sourced above do additions
to some environment variables (like $PATH, $LIBRARY_PATH…) in order to make it work.
Gregwar
@greg_war