Installing Programs to usb external HDD?
Is there a way to install programs to an external usb hdd? What I would like to do is to install those programs that are nonessential on the Usb drive while keep those I use most often on the internal laptop drive. Thus if I were to install a game in Linux it would be on the external drive while Openoffice and such would be installed to the laptop hard drive.
I have no problems mounting the USB drive, however I am unsure if my scheme is possible. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with Gnome and Linux Mint. is there perhaps a switch in apt? Thanks. |
It's not something that's easily done. The apt packages are programmed to install their files to specified locations. In addition, these files are often scattered around the file tree, rather than a single directory.
You would probably have to manually rebuild the programs from source with different configuration options; which makes integration with the packaging system more complicated. It's not impossible, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth. |
Thanks, I guess I will just use it to hold datat and the windows programs I run under wine.
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This actually isn't very difficult at all, though you would need to learn about mounting filesystems and about fstab. |
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