Installing a set of woody libs, independently from rest of system

Hi All, (please cc me if possible) What would be the best way to install woody libs on an unstable system to keep some legacy software (no source) going. I plan to unar / untar the debs and stick them in /opt/usr/lib, and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the right direction. Since this is kdelibs3,

Re: Installing a set of woody libs, independently from rest of system

* Mark M [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030610 03:34]: I plan to unar / untar the debs and stick them in /opt/usr/lib, and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the right direction. Wouldn't it be possible to use the --root= parameter for dpkg? e.g. dpkg --root=/opt -i a-lib-package ? Sicnerely Alexander