<i>&gt; It would make much more sense to add a &quot;user mode&quot; option for the likes of apt-get, whereby it does not need sudo and it will install the specified package in ~&#x2F;bin, ~&#x2F;usr etc, symlinking necessary libraries.</i><p>And then any random piece of malware running in your browser can in principle hose all your applications. There&#x27;s a very good reason that ordinary users do not have write access to application binaries on Linux.