Hello,

When I install a program in Windows, it's need to set
one directory.


I would like make the same with packages debian.

How I can do it ?


Best regards,

Faria




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Hi Faria,

this is a "development" list, not a user support list. You have higher
chances of getting responses when you ask one of the local user groups
or mailing lists.

On Di, 15 Jan 2008, Rodrigo Tavares wrote:
> When I install a program in Windows, it's need to set
> one directory.
>
>
> I would like make the same with packages debian.

I assume you mean the working directory. Changing directory to the place
you want to have as "the directory" should do it.

If you need it automatized, a small script like:
cd /pat/to/dir/you/want
start-the-program-you-want
will do it.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Hello,

When I install a program in Windows, it's need to set
one directory.


I would like make the same with packages debian.

How I can do it ?

Is there any tool for this work ?


Best regards,

Faria



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Hello,

When I install a program in Windows, it's need to
set one directory.


I would like make the same with packages debian.

How I can do it ?

Is there any tool for this work ?


Best regards,

Faria




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On Jan 16, 2008 8:41 AM, Rodrigo Tavares <digolinopage@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

*Hello,

*When I install a program in Windows, it's need to
*set *one directory.


*I would like make the same with packages debian.


*How I can do it ?

*Is there any tool for this work ?

The only mechanism I can think of would be to download the source package and reconfigure it with a different prefix.* This can break other packages that depend on it, however.
*
Generally you should not ever need to do this anyway.
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:41:07AM -0300, Rodrigo Tavares wrote:
> When I install a program in Windows, it's need to
> set one directory.
>
> I would like make the same with packages debian.
>
> How I can do it ?
>
> Is there any tool for this work ?
>

That's not how unix's work. Packages follow the fhs (see man hier(7)).

The other other place would be to recompile it yourself and put it in
/usr/local (but it still goes into /usr/local/bin, with libs in
/usr/local/lib), or you could put it in /opt with /opt/[package]/usr/bin
and /opt/[package]/usr/lib.

So the question is why would you go to this effort. You'd have to redo
all the work every time it needs upgrading.

Doug.


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2008/1/16, Rodrigo Tavares <digolinopage@yahoo.com.br>:
> When I install a program in Windows, it's need to
> set one directory.
> I would like make the same with packages debian.
> How I can do it ?
> Is there any tool for this work ?

Hello,

Debian uses the Linux File System Standard , you can read about it
here [1] and here [2].

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1104
[2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

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Sergio Cuellar

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