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RPM Install the software by non-privileged users

When installing, please specify the following options.

--relocate
--badreloc
--nodeps
--dbpath

Installation registry information will be saved at the place specified by the --dbpath option that is a directory where you want to save the information.

Example:
[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -ivh --nodeps --dbpath=/home/user/rpm --relocate /=/home/user/archaea_tools --badreloc bytix-archaea-tools-1.5.0-35.el9.x86_64.rpm

When uninstalling, please specify the following options.

--nodeps
--dbpath

* Do not specify --relocate and --badreloc.

Example:
[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -e --nodeps --dbpath=/home/user/rpm bytix-archaea-tools

For clients, you need the following packages on your system.

libicu, openssl, zlib

You can confirm them by --qa option of the rpm command.

Example:
[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -E -e "^(libicu|openssl|zlib)-"
libicu-67.1-9.el9.x86_64
openssl-pkcs11-0.4.11-7.el9.x86_64
libicu-devel-67.1-9.el9.x86_64
openssl-libs-3.0.1-43.el9_0.x86_64
openssl-devel-3.0.1-43.el9_0.x86_64
openssl-3.0.1-43.el9_0.x86_64
zlib-1.2.11-35.el9_1.x86_64
zlib-devel-1.2.11-35.el9_1.x86_64

[user@localhost ~]$ find /usr/lib64 | grep -E -e "^/usr/lib64/lib(icudata|icuuc|pam|crypto|ssl|z)¥."
/usr/lib64/libicudata.so.67.1
/usr/lib64/libicudata.so.67
/usr/lib64/libz.so.1
/usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.11
/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.67
/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.67.1
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.3
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.3
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib64/libpam.so.0.85.1
/usr/lib64/libpam.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so
/usr/lib64/libz.so
/usr/lib64/libssl.so
/usr/lib64/libicudata.so
/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so
/usr/lib64/libpam.so