Re: Question: Can dpkg relocate package

[Soraia Paz <sopaz@cisco.com>]

Yes,

        I can convert the .rpm to .deb with alien and that works okay, but 
the scripts that run
before and after install/uninstall don't run with dpkg. So I've decided 
that I'm better off
just creating Debian packages. But now I can't find out how I would go about
installing somewhere other than the default location. I'm even a bit 
sketchy on specifying
the default install location. For example, if I wanted to install in /opt 
by default
would I just create a directory structure /opt/myProgram? And if the user 
wants to install
it somewhere else, is there an option for this?

Thanks

At 06/21/2001, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote:
> [Soraia Paz wrote...]
> -| Hi,
> -|
> -|      I'm converting Redhat .rpm to Debian .deb. I was wondering if dpkg 
> allows
> -| you to relocate a package
> -| at install time. Something similar to RPMs --prefix? If not how does dpkg
> -| work? Does it just install where
> -| ever you put it or based on the directory structure when the package was
> -| first created?
>
> Have you tried using alien? It attempts to handle those issues.
>
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