My First RHEL Experience

Package installation as a normal user

Introduction

This article records my errors and difficulties encountered on the first day I came across Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 in my school’s laboratory, as a normal user without sudo privileges.

The login screen was gdm, and the desktop environment was GNOME. IBus was used as the input engine.

Packages installed

The principal goal is to install tools that I usually use on RHEL without sudo permissions. To do so, I’ve downloaded the executable binaries or source code of these packages. As I wanted to focus on my studies, I prefer downloading executable binaries.

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Linux  RHEL