using rpm with --root <directory> will install all files using the given directory as root, and the database within root (i.e. not your system database).
David Looney Ralph Shumaker wrote: > I've been trying for days now to get apt-get installed on my system > (rh9). It all boils down to where I get stuck for lack of one stoopid > file that I can only find packaged in older versions of RPM. (In my > research, I came across a couple of horror stories where they attempted > to install the older version while thinking they would just be able to > re-install the newer version.) > > "man rpm" doesn't give me anything that looks like I can get rpm to > install just one file from a package in the place where it is supposed > to go and *not* update any databases in the process. (It has a switch > to do the opposite, namely to update the database without installing any > files.) > > If it's not possible to get rpm to do what I want, is there some other > way to extract just one file from a package and know where to copy it to? > > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
