On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:08:52PM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:37:46PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >Ok, I'm a new Dweebian^WDebian user; and I am wondering how experienced
> >users deal with .rpms and non-.deb'ed software.
> >since the stuff on the debian mirrors is commonly months behind the latest
> >version (or maybe you're testing alpha versions of a project); what do you
> >do if there is a .rpm (or even just a .tgz) for a package you might already
> >have installed with dpkg?
> 
> Install to ~/ somewhere

it's a thought.

anyone know if there's a way to convince RPM to install to a different root?
like /usr/local/, or ~/local?

how well does stow work in this case?

Carl Soderstrom
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