Installing Source RPMs as non-root User

while sorfing i came across it ... and some may benefit from this.

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It can be done as normal Unix user (i.e. root access is not required) but the file /.rpmmacros needs to be in place and contain the right definitions for the topdir. In particular the topdir needs to be defined as a user subdirectory. Also, a local database directory for rpm (RPMdb) needs to be created in the user area and the .rpmmacros should contain the right definition for it.


In order to create a correct /.rpmmacros file, copy the file /usr/lib/rpm/macros in /.rpmmacros and change it to contain the right definitions for topdir and dbpath.


To populate the rpm database directory, copy the rpm files from /var/lib/rpm to the user created local RPM database directory.


Here is the procedure described step by step:


copy the source RPM that you want to install wherever you want

create the RPMdb directory + copy rpm files (mkdir /RPMdb)

create the /.rpmmacros file as described above, defining in this example the topdir to be and dbpath to be /RPMdb

create the RPM topdir structure as follows:

mkdir -p ~/rpm/redhat/SOURCES
mkdir -p ~/rpm/redhat/BUILD
mkdir -p ~/rpm/redhat/RPMS
mkdir -p ~/rpm/redhat/SRPMS
mkdir -p ~/rpm/redhat/SPECS


run rpm -ivh -dbpath /RPMdb source-rpmfile.rpm

no -prefix is required, a tar.gz file will be created in: /rpm/redhat/SOURCES

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Source : http://project-gdmp.web.cern.ch/proj...3-0/node8.html