Is it possible to use pacman without root, and locally, say `~/pacman` instead of global `/usr'. I built and installed pacman from git sources. $ cd pacman && git checkout v5.2.1 $ autoreconf -vif $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pacman/usr/local --enable-static --with-libcurl --with-gpgme $ make $ make install Adding pacman to path, `.bashrc': source /home/nly/pacman/usr/local/etc/profile # (4.) $ pacman -Q nano warning: database file for 'core' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download) error: package 'nano' was not found $ pacman -Sy error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. I've linked to the etc/pacman.conf (3.) and etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (2.). Thanks, Amar ---------------- 1. makepkg-conf: http://nly.info.tm/pacman/makepkg.conf 2. mirrorlist: http://nly.info.tm/pacman/mirrorlist 3. pacman-conf: http://nly.info.tm/pacman/pacman.conf 4. bash-profile: http://nly.info.tm/pacman/profile