Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq2] Rpm installation

[jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If you rebuild the rpm to install in /home
> RPMs are binary packages and only install info where they have been built
> to do so.

That's not completely right.

Lots of packages are built "relocateable". This means that you can
write:

        rpm -i --prefix=/home/ mypackage.rpm

Ofcourse some packages can't really be moved, and others have some
defiencies when moved. Especially you will probably have to edit your
PATH, in order to be able to start these commands as you normally
would.


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