How to make a library path

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Accidental Brine

I have an account on a box, but I'm not root. I want to add some packages to the system though. I know I can download them from the ftp sites, but sometimes libraries or homedirs (for programs) are not in the right places (eg not in /usr/local). Is there a way to tell the programs to look in ~/share/ and ~/lib in addition to /usr/local?
 
I do not believe this is possible with pre-built packages. However ports can be built and installed into a different prefix. Even then building the port and installing it with pkg(8) might require root privileges. pkg modifies the package database stored in /var/db/pkg. Maybe you can override this with a custom pkg.conf and build the packages locally with a different PREFIX and copy them to your box.
 
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