On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:33:48PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the subject says it all. Can I (or maybe even a user w/o > > root privileges) install a .deb in a safe place? Of course, > > this would not work for daemons or libc, but it would be > > very useful for some tools and libs. It would be very sad > > to not have all the power of Debians dpkg/apt if it comes > > to local installation! But I didn't see anything about it > > in the manual pages - did I miss it? > > i don't think so, i was looking into installing half of a debian > system in the confines of my home directory on a linuxppc 2000 box > (linuxppc is rather broken so i wanted to replace all the broken crap > with usable debian stuff, but i don't have root) i could not get dpkg > to let me do much of anything like that non-root though.
dpkg --root=dir/ --force-non-root ? (Not tested, just from the manpage) Or maybe fakeroot can help. Is this also the way the Base System is made by the boot-floppies package? And we also have dpkg-deb -x file.deb dir/ for the dirty non-managed extraction-only things. Regards, Anne Bezemer
