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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Siplus on 3 July 2003, 23:07

Title: rpm installs
Post by: Siplus on 3 July 2003, 23:07

is there a way to decide where it installs rpms or other binaries?

Title: rpm installs
Post by: Stryker 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?

Title: rpm installs
Post by: suselinux 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.

Title: rpm installs
Post by: Stryker 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.

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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).

Title: rpm installs
Post by: jtpenrod on 4 July 2003, 12:44

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...and perhaps that file that tells where the libs are located (forgot the name).

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/etc/ld.so.conf
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