To facilitate better answering of questions, if you have a question, please fill in the following info. Otherwise, please delete the template. What I want to do I can run dgraph from a non-root user (with the --cwd and --log_dir parameters) no problem, but I can’t either use the curl | bash install…

Some steps on the scripts needs sudo. There’s no other way. One way for you is just downloading the binary and running it locally dgraph-linux-amd64.tar.gz To run locally you have to be at the same path as the binary and run: ./dgraph zero ... some_configs

I realized this after reading the bash script that get.dgraph.io produces. :smiley: I suggest the DGraph download page and instructions add details to this effect and how DGraph can be started without requiring root. AFAICT the sudo is needed to add the dgraph user/group, install in /usr/local, cre…

In the GitHub repo the make install installation process doesn’t require sudo.It installs the binary to your GOBIN where you can then copy the dgraph binary wherever you wish.

I know this is an old thread, but see build: Build jemalloc without sudo by MarkMankins · Pull Request #9510 · hypermodeinc/dgraph · GitHub for a proposed fix.

Installing (or building) dgraph on Linux without root/sudo access?

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rahst12 (Ryan) October 3, 2025, 3:29am 6

I’m flagging this as related: Jemalloc missing from docker container? We also had jemalloc build issues.

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Installing (or building) dgraph on Linux without root/sudo access?

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