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I have scripts to setup virtual machine images, where emacs packages are installed for the root account. Currently, I manually copy them to the appropriate site-lisp directory, i.e. one of those defined by package-directory-list -- either /usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/elpa or /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa.

While the above approach works for making installed packages accessible to normal user account, I would prefer to avoid hand editing the packages directory.

Is there a way to automate this process in package.el itself ?

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    I feel like there is a useful question in here somewhere, but as stated it's unclear.
    – shosti
    Oct 14, 2014 at 18:45
  • I edited the question quite liberally to emphasize what I think is your question. Feel free to revert/edit if you disagree. The original question was unclear
    – Vamsi
    Oct 14, 2014 at 19:53

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Would it help to simply set package-user-dir before installing the packages? 

(setq package-user-dir "/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/elpa")

Assuming you have write access, package.el will install the packages there.

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