Hung-Hsien Chang <hubert / cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> I am trying to install the Ruby 1.6 version  on the machine
> I am working on but I am not a root. Our machine
> currently does have 1.4 version but it doesn't parse
> the class variable.

A couple of years back I reorganized my machine so I no longer need
root access to install common packages. I created a directory tree
(which I own), in my case starting at '/tc'. I then configure the
packages with

    ./configure --prefix=/tc/usr

    make

    make install

And everything gets installed in my directories, rather than the
system ones.


Regards


Dave