Hi,

What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
package to my local directory rather than /usr?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Jim


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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> package to my local directory rather than /usr?

I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to
actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your
real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was
created for a purpose.

Regards,
Andrei
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On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:27:15 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> > package to my local directory rather than /usr?
>
> I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to
> actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your
> real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was
> created for a purpose.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

I'm also not aware of such an option. Depending on the package you may be able
to download only using apt-get -d install ... and then open it yourself.

To open the package you have

ar x <package>
and then there should be a file something like data.tar.gz that contains the
actual installation tree


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On 05/10/2008 06:00 AM, hce wrote:

Hi,

What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
package to my local directory rather than /usr?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Jim




There is no single command to do this. You would use several simple
commands instead.


First use this to get the URL:
apt-get --print-uris package

Then select the URL and use wget to download it:
wget "URL"

Then use dpkg to extract the package contents:
dpkg -X packagefile


HTH


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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> > package to my local directory rather than /usr?
>
> I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to
> actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your
> real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was
> created for a purpose.
>
There are 2 things related to the OP request:
A)download the DEB to an alternative location
B)install the DEB to an alternative location
A is possible. B has limitations like the FHS.
-K



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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:42:27AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:

> There is no single command to do this. You would use several simple
> commands instead.
>
> First use this to get the URL:
> apt-get --print-uris package
>
> Then select the URL and use wget to download it:
> wget "URL"

What's wrong with 'aptitude download'? There is also a -d option for
apt-get but I don't know where the package gets saved, the man page
doesn't specify (aptitude saves it to the current dir).

Regards,
Andrei
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On 05/10/2008 03:28 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:42:27AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:

There is no single command to do this. You would use several simple
commands instead.


First use this to get the URL:
apt-get --print-uris package

Then select the URL and use wget to download it:
wget "URL"


What's wrong with 'aptitude download'? There is also a -d option for
apt-get but I don't know where the package gets saved, the man page
doesn't specify (aptitude saves it to the current dir).


Regards,
Andrei


There's nothing wrong with 'aptitude download', but there was something
wrong with me: I didn't know about that. Sorry.


The "-d" option to apt-get downloads to /var/cache/apt/archives

So you can download to that directory and just copy the .deb to your
current directory.



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On Sat, 10 May 2008 15:35:19 -0400
Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:

> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> > > package to my local directory rather than /usr?
> >
> > I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to
> > actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your
> > real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was
> > created for a purpose.
> >
> There are 2 things related to the OP request:
> A)download the DEB to an alternative location
> B)install the DEB to an alternative location
> A is possible. B has limitations like the FHS.
> -K
>
>
>

Not sure how difficult it is but it may be possible to force installation using
chroot (the program may need that to find it's files anyway)


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On 5/11/08, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the
> > > package to my local directory rather than /usr?
> >
> > I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to
> > actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your
> > real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was
> > created for a purpose.
> >
>
> There are 2 things related to the OP request:
> A)download the DEB to an alternative location
> B)install the DEB to an alternative location
> A is possible. B has limitations like the FHS.
> -K

Thanks for all of your suggestions, I'll try different options. I was
searching mysql C client sample code and installing mysql development
pacakge. My root partition has limited space, I have to install the
development package to my local user partition.

Kind Regards.

Jim


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