Re: Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-12 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Thanks all. I moved /opt to /usr/local/opt and then used the obvious solution of symlinks (as suggested by Eduardo) to point /opt to /usr/local/opt and it worked! By the way, I'm the only user of this machine and that should not cause any problems. Nima :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Just use a bind mount. man bind That should read "man mount". Read the "bind" section. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread John Hasler
PaulNM writes: > To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in > /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to > /opt. Just use a bind mount. man bind I'd rather not install such a bungled package at all, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 11 Dez 2009, PaulNM wrote: Celejar wrote: For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopba

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread PaulNM
Celejar wrote: For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar That's a good idea. To the OP, if you don't have any spare partition, but have room in /usr, you could create a sparse file. Format and loopback mount it to /opt. PaulNM -- To

Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:45 +0330 Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > How do you direct aptitude to install packages to a specific directory? For > example, Google Chrome by default is installed under /opt but I prefer it to > install in my /usr partition rather than in the root partition which