Haha, no kidding. It's not so bad with the right tools. In particular, "virtualenv" lets you make "environments" for python packages so you can install these t

Haha, no kidding. It's not so bad with the right tools. In particular, "virtualenv" lets you make "environments" for python packages so you can install these things without needing root access: - Use your distro package manager to install virtualenv - Make a new virtual environment with: virtualenv /tmp/vv - "Enter" the environment: source /tmp/vv/bin/activate - You now have "pip" so you can say pip install term2048 - Play - rm -r /tmp/vv and log out; everything's all cleaned up now.