On Friday 26 October 2007 17:37:24 James Sparenberg wrote: > On Friday 26 October 2007 17:12:26 Peter Flynn wrote: > > Thanks Jonathan and James for pointing out Application manager to do > > this (far too easy for my tortured mind :-) > > > > It's always surprising and pleased to find that someone has taken the > > trouble to include this kind of functionality in an application. > > > > Any thoughts on how to force a large .deb to use a different directory > > for installing its files? I don't want to start installing it only to > > find it doesn't allow the install directory to be changed, and then just > > goes ahead and hangs the system because it's used up all available disk > > space in / > > > > ///Peter > > No easy method no. On the other hand one of the first things a deb > installer does is check to see if it can install. (meaning it has enough > space) and then bomb out if it doesn't. > > I might be possible to unpack the deb and do some hand manipulation (also > involves a chicken bone and eye of newt at midnight.) but no easy way I > know of. Problem here is that the creators of deb/rpm/etc haved > intentionally pushed this function to the side to maintain ease of use for > the greatest number of users. Those of us who dare try the chicken bone > ritual are on our own. > > oh and you can't execute a binary from the mmc cards by default either. > File system mount thing. > > James > That should have been "No easy method I know of, no" sorry forget to typ ALL the words. James
