How to configure Ivy cache directory per-user or system-wide?

Question

I am using SBT as my build tool for building a Scala project.

My problem is, I can\'t configure SBT to download dependencies to my user home directory. Therefore I a

Answer 1

sbt -ivy /tmp/.ivy2 compile

Reference: man sbt

Options: -ivy path: path to local Ivy repository (default: ~/.ivy2)