Re: changing the install location of a series of deb's

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:50:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:30:51PM -0500, richard white wrote:
> > I have a series of deb's (actually openoffice.org) that I need to install 
> > under /usr/local instead of their default of location of /opt.  Can this be 
> > done without re-building the deb's?
> 
> As always, either "it depends" or "yes, but".
> 
> Do you need it to continue to be monitored by apt so that you get
> notification of updates?  If so, you'll have to look at options for dpkg
> (which does the actual install).
> 
> If you just want it in place and don't care to have apt manage it, then
> extract the deb (I use mc which can open archives [tarballs, debs, etc]
> as a filesystem) to the location you need.  Then peruse the post-inst
> script and make sure that you do whatever it needs done, but you'll have
> to tweak things like install location.
> 
> Either way, its a bit of work.  This leads to two quesitons:
> 
> 1.	Is it worth it to use the debian package rather than the generic
> 	tarball from OO (I don't know, never having used OO)?
> 
> 2.	Why do you need it under /usr/local/ instead of /opt/oo (or
> 	whatever)?

And maybe one more:

3. Could you (he) set a symlink in either /usr/local/ or /opt/ to the 
other?

Ken
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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu