Re: Option to call apt install package to local directory

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 05/10/2008 06:00 AM, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> package to my local directory rather than /usr?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jim

There is no single command to do this. You would use several simple 
commands instead.

First use this to get the URL:
apt-get --print-uris package

Then select the URL and use wget to download it:
wget "URL"

Then use dpkg to extract the package contents:
dpkg -X packagefile


HTH