Re: APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/

Markus Kolb wrote: I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a backend-tool. Of course as non-root user. Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead in some other directory? Yes, the

Re: APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:25, Markus Kolb wrote: Hi, I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a backend-tool. Of course as non-root user. Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead

APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/

Hi, I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a backend-tool. Of course as non-root user. Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead in some other directory? Or is that path hardcoded and