On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:30:51PM -0500, richard white wrote:
> I have a series of deb's (actually openoffice.org) that I need to install
> under /usr/local instead of their default of location of /opt. Can this be
> done without re-building the deb's?
As always, either "it depends" or "yes, but".
Do you need it to continue to be monitored by apt so that you get
notification of updates? If so, you'll have to look at options for dpkg
(which does the actual install).
If you just want it in place and don't care to have apt manage it, then
extract the deb (I use mc which can open archives [tarballs, debs, etc]
as a filesystem) to the location you need. Then peruse the post-inst
script and make sure that you do whatever it needs done, but you'll have
to tweak things like install location.
Either way, its a bit of work. This leads to two quesitons:
1. Is it worth it to use the debian package rather than the generic
tarball from OO (I don't know, never having used OO)?
2. Why do you need it under /usr/local/ instead of /opt/oo (or
whatever)?
Doug.
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