[ale] Howto change install Destination

Fri Apr 18 17:39:24 EDT 2003

On Friday 18 April 2003 03:51 pm, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to change the install destination with RPMs.  I
> have an RPM that by default is trying to install in /usr/local/blah, but
> I want to install the app in /opt.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to find
> the src to be able to compile it myself.

check out the --prefix and --relocate option in the rpm man page.  I think 
they can do what you want -- but only if the package is relocatable in the 
first place.  rpm -qpi file.rpm to find out.

Michael
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