Software :: Installing A .rpm In Home Directory?
Nov 16, 2010
I'm using linux on a university machine and hence I don't have root access. I used to regularly use this application called gnome-do to open programs, search files and create notes but after the system was updated it was uninstalled. I like to use this program a lot and the administrator won't re-install it.
How do I install gnome-do in my home directory? I'm using opensuse 11.3 64-bit. I found the rpm and src.rpm on this website but can't figure out what to do.
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Jan 17, 2010
but something a lot of folks may not be aware of -- you don't have to go messing around over in /usr/share/fonts anymore if you've got a single-user type machine and just want some fonts for your personal desktop.Since I wipe most partitions when I upgrade (/home is on a separate one) this makes the fonts stay with my login. This is GNOME specific, I do believe KDE has a control panel to install fonts.
Obtain the TTF font(s) youd like to use; Ill use the custom Monaco Linux font as an example.
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Apr 20, 2010
I have an interdependent collection of scripts in my ~/bin directory as well as a developed ~/.vim directory and some other libraries and such in other subdirectories. I've been versioning all of this using git, and have realized that it would be potentially very easy and useful to do development and testing of new and existing scripts, vim plugins, etc. using a cloned repo, and then pull the working code into my actual home directory with a merge.
The easiest way to do this would seem to be to just change & export $HOME, eg
cd ~/testing; git clone ~ home
export HOME=~/testing/home
cd ~
screen -S testing-home
# start vim, write/revise plugins, edit scripts, etc.
# test revisions
However since I've never tried this before I'm concerned that some programs, environment variables, etc., may end up using my actual home directory instead of the exported one. Is this a viable strategy? Are there just a few outliers that I should be careful about?
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Aug 18, 2011
I am installing a program on a server as a non-root user. Specifically it is tmux 1.5, but this should apply broadly to all locally installed program in my opinion (I mention the program name in case this problem ends up not being my own error).
The program requires me to install some dependent libraries (e.g. libevent and ncurses). So, I installed them both locally since I do not have root access
cd $HOME/library/installation/folder
DIR=$HOME/local
./configure --prefix=$DIR
#... make ... make install
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Ok, so this installs the program without problems into $HOME/local/bin, but if I run the executable: $HOME/local/bin/tmux , I get the following error:
tmux: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It would seem to me that the program cannot find the desired libraries, but the file libevent-2.0.so.5 does indeed exist in $HOME/local/lib as specified in the configure options. I am wondering how I can get the program to recognize the installed library in order to run. I tried putting symbolic links in $HOME/lib, $HOME/bin, and $HOME/local/bin, but none of these worked.
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Jul 21, 2009
I have a strange problem when I do SSH to a FEDORA9 based Linux Server.
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When I login using "adah" username in TELNET I am automatically directed to my home directory at location "/media/disk-1/home/adah". But when I use SSH to login using the same username I get the following message Code: Could not chdir to home directory /home/adahaj: Permission denied
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Sep 22, 2010
I have a dual-boot macbook with an OS X partition and an ubuntu partition. When I first installed ubuntu, I changed my home folder to my OS X home directory to synchronize all my files from both. My home directory is now /media/sda2/Users/username/. In a regular home folder, the icons for Documents, Music, Pictures, Movies, etc. are different (not just with emblems, but actually different icons). But when I changed my home folder, these subfolders' icons stayed the same as regular folder icons and I can't figure out a way to change that default setting. I know how to change the icons for each folder manually, but these changes don't appear everywhere (i.e. nautilus, places, etc). Furthermore, every time I change my icon theme, I would have to manually reassign icons for these folders. Is there a way to globally change the folder icons for these folders?
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Jan 6, 2010
I have a secondary disk which holds a /home directory structure from a previous install of Linux. I installed a new version on a new primary drive and mounted this secondary drive as the new /home. Problem is, even though the users are the same names and I can access the home directories for the users, I cannot login directly to their home directories, as I get the following error: -
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login as: [me]
[me]@[machine]'s password:
Last login: Wed Jan 6 18:34:33 2010 from [machine]
Could not chdir to home directory /home/[me]: Permission denied
[[me]@[machine] /]$
Now, since the usernames are correct and the users are in the passwd file with the correct home directory paths, could it be user ID's that are different or something else? It's not as though I cannot access the home directories for the users, simply that I cannot log directly into them from a login prompt.
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Jun 19, 2010
Is there anything special about a home directory before users' home directories are stored there, or is just as typical as any other "empty" folder?Let me just cut to the chase, but please no ear ringing about the folly of messing around as root, particularly with directories at root level. I know it's considered stupidity, but I deleted my home directory.
Is there an easy way to restore a working home directory? I tried copying /etc/skel under root, but I'm not sure what a home directory should look like once it has been restored. Besides . & .., there were .screenrc & .xsession in my home directory when I copied /etc/skel. Are these files suppose to be in "/home" or "/home/~" or both?
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May 24, 2011
I need to specify a different path to home directories on a particular server than what LDAP contains for the users, besides using a symlink. E.g. "/Users/jdoe" vs "/home/jdoe" I don't want to change the actual LDAP attributes, just want a particular server to point them in the right direction (Ubuntu 10.04).
I'm assuming it's something I could probably set in pam configurations?
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Aug 26, 2010
I have Ubuntu Karmic. I chose to install with an encrypted home directory. Recently I got a warning that I only had 2GB of drive space left. This is mostly because of my videos. So I went and bought a new hard drive and partitioned it and made 1 ext4 partition and copied my videos all to the new hard drive. I added a line in my fstab to mount the new hard drive to ~/videos, but when I reboot the computer, there is a screen saying something like "error mounting /home/me/videos, press S to skip or something else to reboot". If I press S to skip, then when my system comes up there is a video directory but it's empty because my other hard drive didn't get mounted. I can run sudo mount /dev/sdb video/ and it will mount fine and I can see all my videos, so why can't fstab mount it? Does this have something to do with my encrypted home directory?
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Apr 13, 2010
I'm using Mac OS X's Terminal.app shell to compile and run Fortran programs. One such program resides outside of my home directory (it is in the Applications folder, which resides on my hard drive but seems to be outside of my home folder). How can I navigate into this directory using Terminal.app to run the programs that reside there?
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Jul 5, 2010
How in the world do I find the Home Directory?
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Jan 9, 2011
i have rhe5.4 ,in my system the user ac is not working while iam login in to root not able to login as a user and in root it shows the (X)mark not able to open this also ..
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Jul 24, 2009
When i try and log in with my user it is giving me an error I have removed gnome from the computer and put kde as my desktop I can login with root can't enter home directory using / is the error
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Jul 29, 2009
I use ext4 for the lvm2 home partition on Fedora 11. Yesterday, I must shrink my home partition and the operation crashed. Then a new ext4 partition becomes a backup "cp -R /mnt/backup/* /home" + chown + chgrp and boot Fedora again.
The login failed and the message of Fedora is "Cannot enter home directory. Using /."
What is the problem?
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Nov 29, 2009
Every time I start a terminal it defaults to my Documents directory and I would prefer it default to my /home/thisuser directory instead. Anyone know how to set that? I tried looking in .bash_profile and didn't see anything. Nor did the man page have anything that seemed like what I was trying to do...
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Nov 24, 2010
I've installed F14 to replace another distribution on my PC. I chose to use KDE. I used to have a separate partition for my user home to be mounted as /home. During the installation I instructed the installer to do so (without formatting of course). At the first boot I created a use with the very same name as I used to have. I got the warning about the home being already there and I said "yes, convert that ownership and selinux stuff so I can use that very directory as my home". At the graphical login I get a dialog saying I cannot enter my home and that it will use / instead. Of course the login process fails. If I switch to the character console (CTRL-ALT-F2) and do a login I actually get the very same error. But, if I hit "cd" (change directory to $HOME), then I get in the proper directory.
Update 1. I guessed it was a SELinux problem. And I manually disabled it into /etc/selinux/config. Now I'd like to fix this issue, because I'd like to have SELinux working.
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Aug 27, 2011
I have been trying to get my development box up and running and I decided to do some CGI work in Perl and I am getting a 500 error on Apache 2. I have checked all the perl settings and the script runs fine on the CLI. I am simply passing a textfield from a HTML form to Perl. I was using the standard CGI.pm calls but I modified the script just to use print statements to make the output page. The script has one textfield in it, as it was just supposed to test the CGI.
I have the UserDir directive active for my user and I did some modifications to allow CGI execution from my home directory /public_html/cgi-bin/. the script will not run from the main /var/www/cgi-bin directory either,that also returns a 500 error. the permissions are 755 on both copies of the script in the cgi-bin directories.
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Jan 20, 2010
I grant read privilege to all the users to my .vimrc file . But my colleague still can't read my .vimrc file . I guess in addiction to give the read privilege to the .vimrc file, in some way I should give the person who want to read it the "access right" to my home directory first---which I don't know how to do it.
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Feb 1, 2010
I recently found an awful lot of junk files in my home directory, mostly in directories that start with a dot e.g. /home/my home/.mozilla So I did cd du -chs .??* and found 3.5 GB. After pruning, I find < 250 MB of files that I have knowingly created.What is happening is that I installed some programs, say xyz , tried them out and decided they were unsatisfactory, deleted them. The un-installer for xyz deletes the actual program but meanwhile xyz has installed lots of config files or status files in /home/my home/.xyz and the un-installer does not delete these. So if you are running short of space or if backups take forever, it might be worthwhile to do the above command or maybe
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Feb 3, 2010
I thought i'd set up the partitions correctly when i installed ubuntu, with a 15 gig "/" partision and a 45 gig "/home" and a 3.8gig "swap"
I was wrong i somehow misplaced the /home partition, and therefore didn't install it
I found this out about 4 days ago as i was running though video tutorial and realized i didnt have it setup correctly afterall
So... i did some research and found this site...[url] and i found something that seemed to work for various people, i deleted the 'now' windows partition and so i had this:
However i unmounted the /home folder following the instructions without realizing that i didnt have permissions to mount the /new home partition as it is not in the extended ubuntu 9.04 linux partition and i have no rights to it
So my question is, how do i fix the path to the /home folder (original) in ubuntu so that i can start over and do this correctly (ie; resize the extended partition and add the /newhoe directory/patition to ubuntu)
I realize that i can use a sudo command before lines to run su commands that are blocked in ubuntu, which is how i screwed up =
I cannot use anything in the menu as all links to programs are dead, i can run the add app, but it cannot install as the install folders are "not there"... i can see them in the terminal so i know my data is there and i can run the live disc to salvage it, but i cannot see it while ubuntu is loaded
Note; i have not restarted the computer and i don't know if this will block ubuntu from restarting either, so i need to fix via terminal, before i can do anything else, like letting the laptop rest.
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Feb 19, 2010
if these are set to be encrypted on installation how would I go about changing that?
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Jul 2, 2010
I've followed some instructions on installing a new hard drive on Ubuntu ("Installing a New Hard Drive" and "HOWTO move /home to a new hard drive") and I've now successfully got my new drive working with /home. Everything looks to be in perfect working order.Now I'm wondering how to delete my original /home folder. Running "df -h" still shows 97% usage on my / partition and I'd like to clear out the old /home to free up all that space. I just don't know where these files are now is all.
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Sep 28, 2010
I made a media station with XBMC and this is working just fine. Now I have an internal hard disk NTFS formatted loaded with multimedia stuff. I would like to appear the disk as directory in my home. Example: /home/xbmc/multimedia where multimedia redirects to the root of the NTFS disk. Is this possible?
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Jul 17, 2011
My desktop just froze for some reason and I had to force shut down. When I logged back in I could not get into my /home/username directory, a message popped up that it does not appear to exist and if I would like to put it as root.
what should do to get it back?
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Oct 20, 2009
I am confused that what should be the permssions of home directory because currenlty my users when they log into their home directory , they can see all the contents of /home directory as well..However if i take read all permissions then my sites are not accessible , what should i do The current permissions are 755
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Mar 16, 2010
Supposedly, the person who used to manage the server set up an admin account before they left, but when I try to log in to it I get the error:Your home directory is listed as:'/home/username'but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with the / (root) directory as your home directory?It is unlikely anything will work unless you use a failsafe session. I've browsed a couple other topics with similar problems and tried some of what was suggested, but I haven't gotten anywhere.
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Sep 10, 2010
I need to backup my /home directory because I want to switch from Fedora to OpenSUSE but I didn't put /home as a separate partition so I need to back it up. Problem is, I can't figure out how.I've tried tar and gzip through every google hit I can possibly find but not one has worked.
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Jan 16, 2011
iam learning to setup a NFS server with fedora14. I have gone through couple of materials for this topic. I have a doubt. Say if i have user1 till user5 on my NFS server with their home directory under the /home and the /home directory is shared. If user1 logs into a client machine then will he be able to see home folders for the other users or just his own home folder. Because in the /etc/exports file there was an option saying "subtree" and according to my understanding this means that the subdirectories under /home will also be shared. Does that mean all the users should be able to see all other users home directory and its contents but not read/write?? Correct me if iam wrong.
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Sep 26, 2010
This might see a dump question but I will make it anyway .Here is the scenario:I have two users on my Linux Mint installation:
User A
User B
I want User A to be able to write on User B home directory, say /home/B.For this I have changed users's B home directory to look like this:ls -ld drwxrwxr-x 36 B music 4096 2010-09-26 10:31 /home/BI have created a "music" group and assigned to /home/B, so all users that are member of "music" are going to be able to write on User B home directory, right?The answer is No! Not here in my box Can you tell me why?Why users under group music can't write on /home/B if B directory is owned by group music and group music has write permissions?
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