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Hi, I'm not in exactly your situation, but maybe I can help. I needed to install from source as well without using apt because I was on an ARM board that isn't supported by ROS's apt repositories... though I did have root. What I did was to follow the instructions for installing rosdep using pip:
sudo pip install -U rosdep
and just do the same for wstool. To get around the not-having-root issue, use the '-E <your-install-path>' command line parameter in pip to have it install somewhere you can access. Of course, you'll also have to drop the 'sudo' in front. You'll still have to deal with path issues probably, but at least you'll have the tools.
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