App development without admin rights [answered]

As suggested below, you can develop directly on the device but it's a real pain to do if you are not familiar with Sailfish and all the qml modules it uses.

Perhaps to ask the owner of the PC you use to grant you admin rights or even create you a new account with admin rights so you can then use SFOS SDK and Virtualbox.

I started by making/developing apps directly on the device and I learnt a lot doing it that way, but SDK is soooo much easier and inherently quicker.

On a tangent, I would be careful about developing applications on a machine you do not own.

If that is owned e.g. by your employer, they might have the rights to anything you develop on the machine.

Then the employer can argue that with Jolla should they want to make any claims.

I never tried it but if you _happen_ to have dockeron that machine and the privileges to use it (unlikely as everyone allowed to use docker is essentially root equivalent...), you could try coderus' SDK docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/coderus/sailfishos-platform-sdk-base

I also never tried building a forked app that was designed to be built with the SDK. I don't like depending on GUIs and only do uncompiled Python+QML apps, so I always roll my own building/packaging system (e.g. with autotools, currently migrating to SCons) to be independent of the SDK. But if your forked app doesn't provide such an alternative...