Re: Package Installation....

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 32D6148F.4CCB6AEA@wow.net>,
Timothy M. Hospedales <hospedales@wow.net> wrote:
>Hi!
>I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs
>with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!).
>When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1.
>But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of
>staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how
>I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else?

Create a /usr/opt and make /opt a symlink to it (ln -s /usr/opt /opt)

Mike.
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