Re: Secret APT commands?

[Michelle Konzack <linux.mailinglists@freenet.de>]

Hello Sebastiaan,

Am 22:58 2002-12-06 +0100 hat Sebastiaan geschrieben:

>For example, to install a package in a different directory, e.g. see
>/tmp/root as /, type:
>
>dpkg --install --root=/tmp/root blabla.deb
>
>if I am not mistaken.
>
>Greetz,
>Sebastiaan

I have tried this too, but with errormessages.

BUT, if you create the /var directory in it with the right files
for apt it will work, Because it needs a real installation (even
it is virtualy) to do that.

Michelle