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Install deb packages in another directory (or equivalent)
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Mar 15, 202612149 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a netbook with a tiny hard drive, and an external drive to go with it. It's running Ubuntu. I want to be able to install some packages to that external hard drive, so that when the hard drive is not plugged in the netbook still functions, just with out some functionality. It doesn't have to …
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You can use --root to install packages into another directory, but you can't use most programs from there as most programs look for some files in fixed places (like /etc). The option is there for cases like installing packages into a NFS root for di…
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