Installing packages without sudo access

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Is there an easy way to install packages with a large dependency tree, provided that you don't have superuser access? For instance, say I wanted to install firefox. Firefox has a ton of dependencies, each of which have their own dependencies, etc. Installing these the "./configure; make; make install" way would take forever.

Is there an option I can give apt-get to make it install in a personal directory? Or is there a way to hack it to do all the heavy lifting for me?

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You can install individual .deb files in your home directory with:

dpkg-deb -x /path/to/some.deb $HOME

But this does not take care of the dependencies like aptitude or apt-get does.

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usually I do dpkg -i <deb file>, it'll fail saying it needs dependencies. After that when you do an apt-get update it'll say at the end something like "dependencies are ready to install" I think it then advises to use apt-get install -f.

Once that's done, I use dpkg -i again.

Worked fine for me last few years.

edit: looking a bit further, apparently a tool called gdebi can do this as gdebi [deb file].

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Take a look at this answer:

Command to list recently installed packages that were installed via any method (apt-get, Software Center et al.):

grep " install " /var/log/dpkg.log

You could run this command to list only the recently installed package names,

awk '$3~/^install$/ {print $4;}' /var/log/dpkg.log

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