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I use this at work and it's great if you don't have root access but still want to install packages. (Why do you need to be root to install packages locally on a

I use this at work and it's great if you don't have root access but still want to install packages. (Why do you need to be root to install packages locally on all distros anyway??) The Windows equivalent is MSYS2, where you have a POSIX shell, pacman, and many packages thanks to the active maintainers.

wryun 9y ago
https://www.pkgsrc.org/ https://www.pkgsrc.org/ is another alternative for this sort of thing.
jhasse 9y ago
> Why do you need to be root to install packages locally on all distros anyway?? On most distros you just can't install packages locally. On Fedora you can install packages globally without root btw: Try `pkcon install pidgin` for example.
zacmps 9y ago
It's because the (distro-location)/bin and /etc directories are owned by and only writable by root by default.