Re: Change default directory in a package
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:41:07AM -0300, Rodrigo Tavares wrote:
> When I install a program in Windows, it's need to
> set one directory.
>
> I would like make the same with packages debian.
>
> How I can do it ?
>
> Is there any tool for this work ?
>
That's not how unix's work. Packages follow the fhs (see man hier(7)).
The other other place would be to recompile it yourself and put it in
/usr/local (but it still goes into /usr/local/bin, with libs in
/usr/local/lib), or you could put it in /opt with /opt/[package]/usr/bin
and /opt/[package]/usr/lib.
So the question is why would you go to this effort. You'd have to redo
all the work every time it needs upgrading.
Doug.
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