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	The_Solutor	2009-10-25 , 14:42
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Originally Posted by att

My method to check the package: Download DEB package. Open it with the GNOME's Archive Manager. Open data.tar.gz by clicking it. Go down by hierachy until you find out how much combined other directories than /opt are using (sum the size columns).

To check whats a package contain, and to eventually install it in a different directory from the predefined one, the best method is:

Open the package (deb, rpm, whatever) with mc (midnight commander) and then copy the files in the desired path.

It's simply, quick and "visual".

I use this method not only to install a package on a foregin distro (say a redhat rpm on a suse distro) but even to overcome a broken dependency, or to install an older version of a package that I won't automatically upgrade.

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