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Can anyone please tell what are the steps to installing libxml2 on a server without root privileges? In a manner so it can be seen by other packages? I have installed it but do not know what is the correct location for it and what variable should be set to make it visible. Please help! I have to install a large number of dependencies and I am stuck at the first step!

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There is no easy way to do this, if any... You can try going with following way, I've done it once and I said: "Never more".

  1. Basically you need to download source of package with wget or with apt-get or whatever...
  2. Go to the downloaded package directory with cd my_package
  3. Issue: ./configure --prefix=$HOME or if you don't want the directory to be in root of your HOME them create new sub-directory in your HOME and alter command accordingly.
  4. make
  5. make install

This should be the steps.

Good luck with it :)

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  • You might need more dependencies (newer version of libXYZ than is installed, maybe a compiler...), there is a reason package managers exist. Commented May 22, 2014 at 23:59
  • Hi! Thanks for your reply. But don't I also need to set path variables for the dependencies? I also don't know how to do that :( I have put the libxml2 file in the structure/home/username/usr/lib to avoid putting it directly into the root. The other dependencies that need to be able to see these are also in the same folder. Commented May 23, 2014 at 0:02
  • By the way i tried this... and it gives "Cannot create regular file : Permission denied" error message when running - make install Commented May 23, 2014 at 0:54

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