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From: Nima Azarbayjany on 11 Dec 2009 11:10 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 contains /opt. That's mostly because I have partitioned my hard disk according to the default scheme of Debian's installer which allocates only a few hundred megs to the root partition. So my question is, how do you ask aptitude to install Chrome in /usr? Thanks. Nima
From: PaulNM on 11 Dec 2009 11:30 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 UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Celejar on 11 Dec 2009 11:30 On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:13:45 +0330 Nima Azarbayjany <i.adore.debian(a)gmail.com> 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 > contains /opt. That's mostly because I have partitioned my hard disk > according to the default scheme of Debian's installer which allocates only a > few hundred megs to the root partition. So my question is, how do you ask > aptitude to install Chrome in /usr? I don't know if this can be done using .deb packages and the apt system. If the software is available as a source tarball, then the installation script / instructions may contain a way to define the installation location. For your specific problem, why not just mount a different disk / partition onto /opt? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: John Hasler on 11 Dec 2009 12:10 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, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: John Hasler on 11 Dec 2009 13:10
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-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |