Yes,
I can convert the .rpm to .deb with alien and that works okay, but the scripts that run
before and after install/uninstall don't run with dpkg. So I've decided that I'm better off
just creating Debian packages. But now I can't find out how I would go about
installing somewhere other than the default location. I'm even a bit sketchy on specifying
the default install location. For example, if I wanted to install in /opt by default
would I just create a directory structure /opt/myProgram? And if the user wants to install
it somewhere else, is there an option for this?
Thanks
At 06/21/2001, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote:
[Soraia Paz wrote...]
-| Hi,
-|
-| I'm converting Redhat .rpm to Debian .deb. I was wondering if dpkg allows
-| you to relocate a package
-| at install time. Something similar to RPMs --prefix? If not how does dpkg
-| work? Does it just install where
-| ever you put it or based on the directory structure when the package was
-| first created?
Have you tried using alien? It attempts to handle those issues.
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