How to install from existing linux without root privilege?

We have a ubuntu server for develop in our company and I have a account. I am more familiar with archlinux. However, I can't just tell the system administrator to replace ubuntu with arch, since that would break everything. And I do not have root privilege. So I am wondering would it possible to install archlinux in the home directory, and use it like a virtual machine?

DSpider wrote:
Pacman needs root privileges (sudo) to work.
So if sudo works for you, then you have root privileges.
Maybe fakeroot or fakechroot?
Trilby wrote:
Ubuntu + pacman != arch.
If you are able/allowed to reboot the machine, you certainly can install arch on a flash drive and have your portable system that you would run on their hardware.
I am asking something different. I want to run arch on another linux.
ewaller wrote:
So, as a user on the system, you should be able to install anything you want to your home directory.
What, specifically, would you like to install to your home directory that you can run with plain user permissions without causing impact to other users.  I am confused as to what you think you want to do..
Something like, install software (including pacman) to home directory via pacman. Start a server by rc.d (I think in this case, sys-V is better than systemd).
For example, I could run this command in ubuntu without root permission, and that ubuntu server didn't install mysql.
$ pacman -S mysql
$ rc.d start mysqld
$ #Or "systemstl start mysqld.service"

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