Changing a package's installation location

Jason.nix · 03-27-2024, 08:50 AM

Hello,
In Debian, when I want to install a package using the dpkg -i command, is it possible to change the installation location?

Thank you.

scasey · 03-27-2024, 06:07 PM

Accord to the man page, yes. Why would you want to do that?

Jason.nix · 03-28-2024, 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Accord to the man page, yes. Why would you want to do that?

Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Like Windows operating system, you can install a program in a drive other than C drive.

evo2 · 03-28-2024, 03:47 AM

Hi,

what are you actually trying to achieve here?
There may be a better way.

Evo2.

lvm_ · 03-28-2024, 04:03 AM

Typical debian package places files in multiple directories - binaries, man pages, configuration files, etc all have their predefined directories, these directories are stored in a package, which is an ar archive, and cannot be changed at installation time. All you can change is the installation root (--instdir), but this will effectively isolate the program from the rest of the system and is useful when creating separate chrooted environments. So, no.

friendlysalmon8827 · 04-02-2024, 06:59 PM

You can achieve this goal via the use of either the whereis or which commands.

example

Code:

which nano

/usr/bin/nano

Code:

whereis ssh


whereis 

ssh: /usr/bin/ssh /etc/ssh /usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz