Installing sqlite and pysqlite in home directory

[Jonathan Arnold]

Shahthureen Khan wrote:
> Hi, 
> I am newbie to unix/FreeBSD. I want to install sqlite
> and pysqlite on my home directory of my FreeBSD shell
> account (they usually only allow person programs to
> installed there). I have got the files from FreeBSD
> ports and unpacked them. However, I can't seem to
> figure out how to get install in my home directory
> instead of trying to go to /var/db/ports/sqlite3 and
> asking to switch to root. I have been searching google
> for few hours and haven't found anything too useful.
> Any help would be appericiated.

At least for sqlite, there really isn't much to install.  Just
do a normal make and copy three files to whereever you want them.
The three files are libsqlite3.a, sqlite3.h and sqlite3.  That's
it!

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