> [root@machine ~]# yum --installroot=/data/xchg-2.0/ install apache2 > [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY > [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY > [root@machine ~]# rpm --import > /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 rpm also has a root parameter: $ rpm --help | grep root -r, --root=ROOT use ROOT as top level directory (default: "/") so you'd want to use "rpm -r /data/xchg-2.0/ --import ..." however, you'll also need to install of apache's dependcies in this chroot directory, probably not exactly what you want... you might also want to look at rpm's --prefix=<dir> relocate the package to <dir>, if relocatable parameter (though I've never used it). Cheers, MaZe.