user-yum.sh

A yum & rpm package installer for CentOS, RedHat RHE, Fedora and the likes, operating at user-privilege.

If you want to know how it works, have a look at How to install packages in Linux (CentOS) without root user with automatic dependency handling?. If you just want to install a few packages, you may want to use the above answer rather than user-yum.sh.

Usage

Installing a package

Downloading one or several package:

make +screen
make +zsh +tcl

Installing all downloaded packages:

make install

Help to setup

Printing the lines to add to your .rc:

make environment

This will output a block of text like the following (2018-09-29):

# Setting environment for /home/mc/y
ROOT_D="/home/mc/y"

PATH="$ROOT_D/usr/sbin:$ROOT_D/usr/bin:$ROOT_D/bin:$PATH"

L="/lib:/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$L:$ROOT_D/usr/lib:$ROOT_D/usr/lib64"

Tip: You can source it using process substitution if you like:

source <(cd user-yum.sh/ && make environment)

Remove the root install folder to remove all installed packages.

There is currently no way to remove a package from the directory after running make install so be careful: use backup or use several instances. If you've just happend to mistype make +the_wrong_name you can use make unload to clean the cache (/rpm) and the list of downloaded packages (/dwnldlist).

Helper script

If you don't want to cd into user-yum.sh to install packages, you can use the wrapper helper script em.sh (usEr-yuM), which will cd into the right directory before making your command. If you use it, the priviously mentionned commands become:

em.sh +screen
em.sh +zsh +tcl

em.sh install

source <(user-yum.sh/em.sh environment)

Configuration

Root directory

You should configure the ROOT_D value in the Makefile to your liking. The default is (as of 2018-09-29) (was?):

ROOT_D := $(shell echo $$HOME)/y

Install flag

You may want to remove the + prefixing the name of the packages to install. If so, change the INSTALL_FLAG_PREFIX, from

INSTALL_FLAG_PREFIX := +

to

INSTALL_FLAG_PREFIX :=

TODO

• Simplify the implementation of the install process. There's no reason to keep any .cpio file since we can just pipe them (rpm2cpio x.rpm | cpio -id).