How do I install to a local directory? How with bootstrap?
 

At the university I go to we're allowed some space on the linux computers (ubuntu), but of course we have no root permissions. How do I install thing directly to my home directory? Also, as a separate, but similar question, with installations that use /.bootstrap instead of /.configure how do I install to the home directory with that? In particular the /.bootstrap comes from wanting to install cmake. Thanks for your time.

Never came across bootstrap in my days, but w/ configure
based installations you can just tell configure to create
the packages target dirs under your home; all you'll need
to have stuff working is to add the relevant ~/bin, ~/lib,
~/doc and so forth to your shell environment, and setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point at your local lib...


Cheers,
Tink

Since I'm in no hurry I'm definitely happy to actually learn what I'm doing then just be given an answer. Unfortunately, until I figure out why cmake is having problems making itself I'm going to have to put "how to install to a local directory" on hold. I'll be back to this soon though. Thanks for the quick reply!