Originally posted by Petr Blahos:
Hi Jesse,
It appears to me that you are trying to install the package
as non-root. You cannot do that. You must first log-in as
root, then you can install package.
Honestly, can you imagine how security would look like in
a system where ordinary users could install software?
;-)
Petr
Actually, with RPM you can, but you basically have to set up your own little world with its own personal RPM database. Probably best done in a chroot environment, but you can do it the hard way using overrides.
However, I have years of Linux sysadmin experience, and it's not something
I'd do without a certain amount of trepidation. For normal package install, login as root.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.