Thanks all. I moved /opt to /usr/local/opt and then used the obvious
solution of symlinks (as suggested by Eduardo) to point /opt to
/usr/local/opt and it worked! By the way, I'm the only user of this
machine and that should not cause any problems.
Nima :)
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:45 +0330
Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
How do you direct aptitude to install packages to a specific directory? For
example, Google Chrome by default is installed under /opt but I prefer it to
install in my /usr partition rather than in the
Celejar wrote:
For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk /
partition onto /opt?
Celejar
That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition,
but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and
loopback mount it to /opt.
PaulNM
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On Sex, 11 Dez 2009, PaulNM wrote:
Celejar wrote:
For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk /
partition onto /opt?
Celejar
That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare
partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file.
Format and
PaulNM writes:
To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in
/usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to
/opt.
Just use a bind mount. man bind
I'd rather not install such a bungled package at all, though.
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Just use a bind mount. man bind
That should read man mount. Read the bind section.
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