Hi

is it normal that /opt is mounted as /home/opt too?
It seems to mess up certain packages that install there.
7zip creates symlinks there pointing to themselves and some of the gnu utilities like updatedb also appear to be broken...

Regards.
casketizer

Yes it's normal
If you get broken symlinks then talk to the application maintainers to fix it

the weird thing is that 7z worked fine and suddenly stopped working. I purged and reinstalled it but it was still the same.When i investigated. i found that all its symlinks pointed on themselves and the files they are supposed to point to were nowhere to be found.
so something is screwed up with my setup and not the 7z package...

I managed to fix updatedb/locate the problem was that it used the busybox find instead of gnu's.
But 7z is still broken. 7z.so and 7z.sfx are nowhere after install. It seems dpkg installs them and then overwrites them with their symlinks which point on themselves.
This is really odd and annoying, especially since it worked fine a while ago....