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get package without installing with sudo

  1. get .deb package. (using e.g. apt-get download (package_name))
  2. unpack package with ar x *.deb
  3. unpack binary with tar xvzf data.tar.gz
  4. run usr/bin/(binary_name) and hope everything works :)

Summarized based on this answer in askubuntu

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