dpkg

[Marc Rios]

you can do it with this:
dpkg -i *.deb --instdir=<directory>
where directory in your case would be /root/Desktop ;)

2007/8/24, hong zhang <henryzhang62 at yahoo.com>:
>
> List,
>
> I just installed utunbu on my laptop and want to use
> dpkg.
>
> I want o install *.deb file into /root/Desktop instead
> default path.
>
> dpkg -i *.deb target path.
>
> How to setup target path?
>
> ----henry
>
>
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