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Re:CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traf... by chocolateboy on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:06PM (#14697361)
Neither requires root:

* https://github.com/creationix/nvm

* http://kazhack.org/?post/2014/12/11/npm-install-g-without-su...

* http://kazhack.org/?post/2014/12/12/pip-gem-install-without-...

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Re:CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traf... by astrodust on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:18PM (#14697721)
You can do it without root if you take precautions, but the default is to use root.
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Re:CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traf... by chocolateboy on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:34PM (#14697816)
Depends on the system. The default on Arch Linux is local gem installs:

    $ cat /etc/gemrc
    # --user-install is used to install to $HOME/.gem/ by default since we want to separate
    #                pacman installed gems and gem installed gems
    gem: --user-install
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Re:CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traf... by astrodust on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:41PM (#14698148)
That's a nice touch and some good work on the part of the package maintainer. Most (Ubuntu, RedHat, etc.) do not, they just expect you to sudo everything.
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