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dE_logics
April 5th, 2009, 06:34 AM
How do you do it?...I mean if an application is installed from a repository, then where does it get installed to? (of course the root folder by default); can we change the default location?
Also can I download the packages from these software repositories in from of deb/rmp/tar etc...?...for instance for installation in a computer without an internet connection and not necessarily working on UBUNTU...for instance Gentoo.
I wanted a graphical deb/tar installer; and while installing we can specify the location where they need to be installed right?
Also do we have a graphical RPM to DEB converter?
pbpersson
April 5th, 2009, 06:44 AM
How do you do it?...I mean if an application is installed from a repository, then where does it get installed to? (of course the root folder by default); can we change the default location?
Also can I download the packages from these software repositories in from of deb/rmp/tar etc...?...for instance for installation in a computer without an internet connection and not necessarily working on UBUNTU...for instance Gentoo.
I wanted a graphical deb/tar installer; and while installing we can specify the location where they need to be installed right?
Packages written specifically for Ubuntu I would not try to install on another distro.
You can download packages as DEB files, burn them to a CD, and then take them to another computer I believe....however I have never tried this. The difficult part would be getting all the dependencies also loaded on the CD. It sounds very time consuming.
A package installs where it needs to be
symlinks, docs, binary, and library files all go to various places.
Application settings typically are in a hidden directory/files in your /home mount point
There is no way to change how this works.....why would you want to?
dE_logics
April 5th, 2009, 06:26 PM
You mean to change the destination directory I gotta work hard!
I wanna increase the number of drives to reduce the access times (I'm on windows 7 currently and have 2 partitions (2.5 GB and 1.25 GB) for software to speed it up)
And the dependencies for binaries should be less right?
dE_logics
April 5th, 2009, 06:44 PM
So what will be the consequence (relative to installing in a different directory) of installing the whole application (and its components) in the root directory?
I mean does it have an advantage over the alternative?
pbpersson
April 5th, 2009, 10:23 PM
We must not be on the same page here
I told you that symlinks, docs, binary, and library files all go to various places.
You cannot change it - that is how it is.
dependencies are a different story
when we speak of dependencies we are talking about things that need to be in place
For instance, let us say you are building a house and you want to add a porch light to the front of your house. Before you add a porch light you need a wall, before you put up the wall up you need a foundation, before you lay the foundation you need a section of land.
pbpersson
April 5th, 2009, 10:27 PM
I wanna increase the number of drives to reduce the access times (I'm on windows 7 currently and have 2 partitions (2.5 GB and 1.25 GB) for software to speed it up)
Linux works on mount points - things like /var, /home, /usr, etc.
If you took your mount points and spread then across several drives....PHYSICAL drives working in parallel I suppose you might be able to increase your performance.....
It depends upon what you are doing with your computer
dE_logics
April 6th, 2009, 04:50 AM
You mean like RAID...that's what we do to the page files also.
Ok thanks!...but what about the graphical DEB installer?
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