How to install BEDTools on Linux server

[wisense]

Hi,all
I have got a problem when I want to install BEDTools on a linux server:
I have no root account,so when I do"cp bin/* /usr/local/bin",it tells me "Permission denied".
It's there some solutions to this problem?
I hope you could give me some suggestion.
Thanks a lot.

Wisense

[zaratieg]

i think you can put them anywhere you want, not just on /usr/local/bin. you could make your own /bin folder.

mkdir ~/bin

will make the directory in your home folder, then you can do cp bin/* ~/bin to copy the binaries etc over. Then you can add ~/bin to your PATH environment variable, or if you can't do that for whatever reason you can probably invoke the binaries explicitly, ie ~/bin/bamToBed

[wisense]

i think you can put them anywhere you want, not just on /usr/local/bin. you could make your own /bin folder.

mkdir ~/bin

will make the directory in your home folder, then you can do cp bin/* ~/bin to copy the binaries etc over. Then you can add ~/bin to your PATH environment variable, or if you can't do that for whatever reason you can probably invoke the binaries explicitly, ie ~/bin/bamToBed

It works.
Thanks very much.