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Siplus

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« on: 3 July 2003, 23:07 »
is there a way to decide where it installs rpms or other binaries?


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« Reply #1 on: 4 July 2003, 02:43 »
you mean of instead of /bin /usr/bin and those folders? i'm not sure, i'd like to know myself. Did you read through the manuals?

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« Reply #2 on: 4 July 2003, 04:11 »
I don't think you can you'd be disrupting the file system stucture. I don't think the app would work properly, or even open for that matter.

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« Reply #3 on: 4 July 2003, 04:18 »
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Originally posted by suselinux:
I don't think you can you'd be disrupting the file system stucture. I don't think the app would work properly, or even open for that matter.


sure it would, you just have to change $PATH a little bit, and perhaps that file that tells where the libs are located (forgot the name).

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« Reply #4 on: 4 July 2003, 12:44 »
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...and perhaps that file that tells where the libs are located (forgot the name).
/etc/ld.so.conf
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