# How to install on Linux without "root" privileges

If you're familiar with the Linux ecosystem, you're probably familiar with apt/apt-get commands to install packages on Linux. It's seriously all good and great but imagine you be given an account on a Linux box and obviously wanted to install some packages.
You just go ahead and `$sudo apt-get install your-favorite-package`, but only then you realize you don't have superuser right and after asking the system's administrator for those rights he said "No kid I can't do that" you're just a kido.

One way to tackle this is by either hacking the system or using a combination of apt-get and `dpkg` to download the package and then install it elsewhere because you're really been asked superuser because by default `apt-get` installs into root directories which all of course require you have those privileges.

For instance, if you wanted to install `neofetch`, here is how you might want to do this:

```bash
david@hplinux:~$ mkdir .root && cd .root #Create a pseudo root directory in your home
david@hplinux:~/.root$ apt-get download neofetch #Download the neofetch package into the current directory
david@hplinux:~/.root$ ls | grep neofetch #Show the full name of the downloaded package
david@hplinux:~/.root$ dpkg --extract $(ls | grep neofetch) . #Extract the package into the current directory
david@hplinux:~/.root$ find . -name "neofetch*" -type f -executable #Find the location where the binary has been installed
david@hplinux:~/.root$ echo 'PATH="$PATH:~/.root/usr/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
david@hplinux:~/.root$ source ~/.bashrc #Source your bachrs to update the path inside the current terminal
david@hplinux:~/.root$ neofetch #Actually run the command
david@hplinux:~/.root$ which neofetch #Check that the command being run is actually from your pseudo root directory
```

That last line will just append the location of your pseudo root directory with all it's `usr, bin, etc...` folder in it to your path, therefore after installing a new package you can just go ahead and run the commands.

*That's it! Now you can still do apt-get even if you don't have the super-user privileges. Hope this little tutorial was useful to you !*

**David :)**