Re: changing the install location of a series of deb's
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? Thanks! Richard White (not subscribed to this list) Hi, the DEB format contains a tar ball of the program files, so you can use dpkg options to extract that tar ball but this will not run the install script or register the install in the dpkg database, You can then use the 'equivs' program to add an entry to the dpkg database. This is extremely hacky at best. I dont recall such an option, maybe someone has a better suggestion. so: 'man dpkg'. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing the install location of a series of deb's
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)? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing the install location of a series of deb's
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 -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
