Question

If I have SSH access to a shared server (running centOS) and I want to install Bazaar. I do not have root access, but Python is already installed on the server, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

I really don’t know where to begin after logging into the server. I’m assuming the first step is to copy the Bazaar application files onto the server… but I don’t know where to put them.

If it helps, I will be using the shared server as a repository – I won’t be doing any checkouts or anything with it.

Answer 1

From the Installation FAQ:

Install in home directory

You can install Bazaar into home directory, in ~/bin. This method requires that ~/bin is in your $PATH and that ~/lib/python is in your $PYTHONPATH.

% python setup.py install --home $HOME

However, if you are truly only using it as a repository, there’s no need to install Bazaar. This how-to explains how to set up a Bazaar repository on a server that only has SSH but no Bazaar. It won’t get you quite as good performance as bzr+ssh, but you would actually need to run a Bazaar server to get bzr+ssh anyway; you may not have that right on your shared server.