Installing Darcs. Rootless.

$ wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/darcs/darcs_1.0.9-1_i386.deb
$ ar x darcs_1.0.9-1_i386.deb
$ tar -xzfv data.tar.gz
$ cp ./usr/bin/darcs ~/installed/bin/
$ darcs
darcs: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5support.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ ldd ~/installed/bin/darcs
$ wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb
$ ar x libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb; tar -xzvf data.tar.gz
$ cp ./usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 ~/installed/lib/
$ darcs
darcs: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5support.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

# Bad hack - should be used for Darcs only
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/installed/lib/darcs; mkdir ~/installed/lib/darcs
$ darcs
darcs: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ mv ~/installed/bin/darcs ~/installed/bin/darcs-1.0.9
$ vim ~/installed/bin/darcs
$ cat ~/installed/bin/darcs
#!/bin/sh
# Hack to give Darcs required libraries from home directory.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/installed/lib/darcs
darcs-1.0.9 $*
$ chmod +x ~/installed/bin/darcs

$ wget "http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8e-6_i386.deb"
$ ar p libssl0.9.8_0.9.8e-6_i386.deb | tar -xzv data.tar.gz
$ mv usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ mv usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/keyutils/libkeyutils1_1.2-3_i386.deb
$ ar p libkeyutils1_1.2-3_i386.deb | tar -xzv data.tar.gz
$ mv ./lib/libkeyutils.so.1 $LD_LIBRARY_PATH; mv ./lib/libkeyutils-1.2.so $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$ darcs get --partial http://darcs.arstecnica.it/tailor
darcs-1.0.9: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3: no version information available (required by darcs-1.0.9)
darcs-1.0.9: relocation error: darcs-1.0.9: symbol regexec, version GLIBC_2.3.4 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
# *

# Grrrr..
$ wget http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/darcs-1.0.7-i386-linux.gz
$ gzip -d darcs-1.0.7-i386-linux.gz
$ chmod +x darcs-1.0.7-i386-linux
$ mv darcs-1.0.7-i386-linux ~/installed/bin
$ ./darcs-1.0.7-i386-linux get --partial http://darcs.arstecnica.it/tailor
# Outdated, but at least works
$ vim ~/installed/bin/darcs