Run autojump without root?

[kevinburke]

Is there any way I could install autojump on a remote shared webhost? I have ssh but not root.

[soutade]

You can remove sudo command from install.(z)sh, specify an alternate path (--prefix or -p) to install autojump in your home directory and update $PATH.

[joelthelion]

I'm working on a better installer; but in the meantime, there is nothing stopping you from installing it yourself without root. I can help if you're stuck.

[kevinburke]

Thanks - here were the steps I had to take, for future reference

1 - didn't realize it had to be --prefix $HOME and not --prefix=$HOME.
2 - remove all the sudo's from install.sh
3 - copy contents of autojump.bash into .bashrc
4 - edit autojump file - default version of python on the box was 2.4, so "except Exception as e" caused errors. Changed first line to #!/usr/local/bin/python2.6 and now it works fine.

[joelthelion]

Thanks for your report.

[mrjabba]

This worked for me under Ubuntu, installing manually with a home directory install. Thanks!!

[mrjabba]

Correction. This worked under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) with Python 2.6.6. This didn't work on my laptop running 10.04(lucid) with Python 2.6.5. But, I don't see that Python would be a factor. I'm getting the helpful "autojump: command not found" when I type "j" space then the name of a directory I want to jump to, then tab. I pretty much followed along above, editing the files to copy to my home directory in ~/bin/autojump. Weird.

[mrjabba]

OK. I think found my problem. I was having issues when I first set this up and had updated my path var.

This didn't work:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/mrjabba/.autojump/bin/autojump
I changed it to this and it worked:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/mrjabba/.autojump/bin

Anyway, the point was point at the autojump bin directory, not the script itself.
All fixed! :-)

This also worked when I tried wting's fork as you can see from .autojump path.

[joelthelion]

I'll work with wting to merge his changes into the main tree.