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I have a .deb which politely installs itself in /opt. For my purposes I would prefer it acted like a first-class citizen and installed itself in the regular filesystem locations.

Is there a way to do this?

This is Ubuntu 10.04.4

update

I have tried --root=/, it doesn't change the installation location.

John Bachir
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This is not possible without rebuilding the Debian package--which is certainly an option if you want to create your own directory hierarchy. The package was--presumably--built and tested based on the directory structure in /opt, and without knowing details about the package, it may not even be ABLE to be run without being in that directory.

Andrew M.
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