Bjoern Stierand wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:build> dpkg --instdir=/home/foo/ -i mypackage.deb > [...] > Has anyone an idea how to solve this one? I read in the dpkg > manpage that it uses chroot when installing the package, > could this problem be related to the chroot thing (maybe it > doesn't find a shell then or something like that).
Yes, if you do dpkg --instdir=/home/foo then you need a chroot environment in /home/foo. If there is not a working /home/foo/bin/sh, for example, maintainer scripts (preinst, postinst, etc.) will not work. If you want to create a chroot environment, the debootstrap tool may help, but perhaps installing packages in alternate roots (which is what --instdir means, more or less) is not what you were looking for.
