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Not root, install APT packages without root access

Notroot

This simple tool allow you to install apt packages without root access.

Installing in Business Application Studio(BAS)

First, clone this repository:

cd /home/user
git clone https://github.com/andrewlunde/notroot.git

Then, modify your .bashrc file by running these commands.

cd /home/user/notroot
cat add2bashrc.txt >> ~/.bashrc

You'll need to exit the current terminal and reopen a new one to affect the changes.

exit

Prepare APT folders

In order for your to run apt-get as a non-root user, you'll need to prepare some directories locally and direct apt to use them.

Run this batch file to make these preparations.

cd /home/user/notroot
./prepapt

As a test this script installs the jq tool which has a few dependencies. If all is working well, you should see the following in the output.

[NOTROOT] Installing jq from apt...
[NOTROOT] Scanning dependencies with apt-rdepends...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
[NOTROOT] jq is not present on the system, installing it locally
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 jq amd64 1.5+dfsg-2+b1 [59.4 kB]
Fetched 59.4 kB in 0s (150 kB/s)
[NOTROOT] libjq1 is not present on the system, installing it locally
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 libjq1 amd64 1.5+dfsg-2+b1 [124 kB]
Fetched 124 kB in 0s (303 kB/s)  
[NOTROOT] libonig5 is not present on the system, installing it locally
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 libonig5 amd64 6.9.1-1 [171 kB]
Fetched 171 kB in 0s (512 kB/s)

If you do not, then something went wrong. Go back and check the prior steps.

Usage

Simply run something like this:

notroot install htop

If you want to see what packages are available for install, use the search:

notroot search golang

This will download and extract packages.

Scripts

Find a handy set of scripts you can use as examples of what this approach can yield.

cd /home/user/notroot/scripts
./python_tools

Support

Note that this is a minimalist script designed to install libraries and binaries without root access, the following are supported:

  • Binaries (using PATH)
  • Includes (using CPATH)
  • Libraries (using LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH)