On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:50:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:30:51PM -0500, richard white wrote: > > I have a series of deb's (actually openoffice.org) that I need to install > > under /usr/local instead of their default of location of /opt. Can this be > > done without re-building the deb's? > > As always, either "it depends" or "yes, but". > > Do you need it to continue to be monitored by apt so that you get > notification of updates? If so, you'll have to look at options for dpkg > (which does the actual install). > > If you just want it in place and don't care to have apt manage it, then > extract the deb (I use mc which can open archives [tarballs, debs, etc] > as a filesystem) to the location you need. Then peruse the post-inst > script and make sure that you do whatever it needs done, but you'll have > to tweak things like install location. > > Either way, its a bit of work. This leads to two quesitons: > > 1. Is it worth it to use the debian package rather than the generic > tarball from OO (I don't know, never having used OO)? > > 2. Why do you need it under /usr/local/ instead of /opt/oo (or > whatever)?
And maybe one more: 3. Could you (he) set a symlink in either /usr/local/ or /opt/ to the other? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
