On Wednesday 15 August 2007 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have discovered that Debian systems have a raft of package > > installers. > > > > So far, dpkg is the only one I've found to support installing > > into a different place in the tree. > > > > So: To install foo into /opt/ltsp/i386: > > > > On server: aptitude install foo > > > > Aptitude will download foo and any dependencies, and leave the > > packages in /var/cache/apt/archives > > > > Now I can run > > dpkg --root=/opt/ltsp/i386 --install /var/cache/apt/archives/foo* > > > > Usually this will fuss, becuase not all the dependencies will > > match. Rerun the command several times, adding packages. > > Getting late and I'm not sure I exactly follow what you are doing here, but > here is a suggestion. > > Assuming this is all being done on a Debian based server and probably > LTSP5.. Can you "sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list > /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list" then "chroot /opt/ltsp/i386" then > "sudo apt-get update" then "sudo apt-get install foo"? > > If this isn't using LTSP5 and my suggestion is way off, provide a little > more detail so those with some knowledge on the list can better help you > :-)
I thought that the point, the whole point and nothing but the point of the chroot environment was so that you could (your choice of package management tool) apt-get install wossname. (after chroot) So loading wosname on to the server first is wrong. Trying to run a server without root passwd is dumb (sudo bla bla etc) [actually I've never even tried chroot except as root. Can it be done ?] James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
