On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 02:00:57PM -0700, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote:
>

> > > >     If the installer must be run as root, it is precisely because it needs
> > > > to install software in /usr.

>
> Or into /usr/local which now requires root. Back in the better days
> of Debian it used to be possible for a user of group staff to install
> into /usr/local without full superuser access. But that's gone from
> the installation now.
>

>     https://bugs.debian.org/484841#62

Or even

chown -R someresponsibleuser /usr/local

?

-- hendrik