Re: installroot question
"Jim Perrin" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Dec 16, 2007 8:30 PM, Curtis Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to use yum to install some programs to /usr/local rather than /usr. This depends on if the packages were built in such a way as to be relocatable, and/or where they place files on the system. > It seems to me that I would need to use the command: > yum installroot=/usr/local install xmms Not really. This will treat /usr/local/ as the base directory, (for example creating a chroot) so you'd end up with /usr/local/usr/bin/foo etc. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell