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Originally posted by gbanks
so i did an install of mandrake 9.1 with limited space on my hard disk (2 gigs) and my root partition is now 98% full. i still have a few things i want to install (codewarrior and some other development stuff) and i was hoping to do it in my home directory where i have around 750 mb of space left, however rpmdrake doesn't give me an option on where i would like to put the package i am installing. i'm not concerned with other users being able to use this software. is there any option from the commandline that i can use to specify a directory to install to, or am i screwed? thanks.
greg
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rpm -qpil packagename.rpm would give you where the files are going to be installed,I think that you need to resize your ext3 partition using parted or fdisk,though I would prefer the former.
Anyway for installing in a seperate partition you need to do many things(like change root ,symlink everything change environmental variables ,so I think that it would not be justified).
Also read the rpm2cpio manpage
http://man.linuxquestions.org/index....ction=0&type=2
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