Comment 4 for bug 385762

Hmm, okay, the rabbit hole goes quite a bit deeper now...

There are auxiliary files and libraries that byobu expects in
/usr/lib/byobu and /usr/share/byobu. I suppose I'd need to support a
BYOBU_LIB and BYOBU_SHARE environment variables? What do you think?

That said, perhaps I can introduce you to the byobu-export command,
which is an excellent way of running byobu on a system where you don't
have root (or a system for which byobu isn't packaged).

If you have byobu installed somewhere, you can run the command, and it
will create a tarball that you can extract in your home directory and
then just run "screen".

As part of my release process, I keep an up-to-date tarball at:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/byobu-export.tar.gz

You can try that...

:-Dustin