Per user installs?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

What if, for example, a specific user preferred an application,
say, Amarok v1.4 and yet another user prefers Amarok v2.0?

I surmise that only one package of the same application can
be installed in the /usr/share directory?

The other question is, can a per-user installation be made
available to all users from /usr/share and when the application
is started by the user could be prompted to which version
they desire without smashing the latest version which is installed
in the normal installation areas?  It is one thing to install a
per-user installation to the user's home directory, but this
could be inefficient as each user could potentially fill up
valuable disk space and in this case, it might be better to install
at /usr/share instead of each and every user's home directory?

The point is, when installing a package, does the user have
the option to choose where the package is to be installed,
and/or what mode this installation should entail so that the
above scenarios are possible?

If this is already possible, how is it done?

Thanks-
Dan

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[Tim-163]

On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 10:20 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> What if, for example, a specific user preferred an application,
> say, Amarok v1.4 and yet another user prefers Amarok v2.0?
>  
> I surmise that only one package of the same application can
> be installed in the /usr/share directory?

Not necessarily...  For example, my Fedora 9 box has the following in
its /usr/share/ directory, and I didn't arrange this:

drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2008-11-06 02:40 audacity
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2008-11-06 02:40 audacity13

You can see something similar with various versions of Java in there.
There'll be a symlink pointing to a particular binary to run, that will
run your default.  And you'd pick the other version by running a
different binary file, or different symlink.

ll /usr/bin/audacity*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4993764 2008-08-23 14:22 /usr/bin/audacity
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3965112 2008-08-23 14:22 /usr/bin/audacity13

And the Gnome menu has them both listed separately.

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