On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:08:06PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:38 pm, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > What do you think? > > > ``dpkg --root=`pwd` --force-non-root -i *.deb'' In what ways is this different from "dpkg -x foo.deb ." ? As non-root, one would think no package state is modified. I do the latter often when I just want to use a low-impact package for a little bit without installing it.