Instead of installing nmap and making directory's in normal sys folders, I thought that i'd like to install nmap in my home directory.

How would I do this? It's a wargame and the box is running freebsd. I just need to know how to install nmap to my home directory (e.x /home/boris) instead of the usual location.

Thanks

I've googled and couldn't find an answer.

compile it with the appropriate "--prefix" option.

You might want to look at stow, which makes it easier to uninstall later.

For example, if you want to keep stuff under ~/pkgs, you'd compile with --prefix=~/pkgs, then override this when you make install with 'make --prefix=~/pkgs/stow install'. Then 'cd ~/pkgs/stow' and 'stow <pkgname>'. This create links for the app in ~/pkgs/bin, ~/pkgs/lib, etc. (Obviously, you'd add those directories to $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, respectively). The advantage of this is that you can uninstall the package later with 'cd ~/pkgs/stow; stow -D <pkgname>'.

Of course, you could write a wrapper script to automate all of this, e.g .

stow-install:

You might want to extend this to allow further configuration options etc.

stow-uninstall: