apt-get, specify installation dir

[Andreas]

B.W. Willems wrote:
> PHPMyAdmin is nothing more than a collection of PHP scripts. You can
> move them where ever you want. Just be sure to modify your
> apache(2).conf accordingly.
> 
> Regards.

Yeah, noticed. But it installs itself in /var/www, which is the 
documentroot for Apache, and in which I had (!) some php-pages that were 
removed when I removed phpmyadmin via apt-get remove phpmyadmin. Luckily 
I had backups. That's stupid. Not everyone has backups. It should 
install to $DocumentRoot/phpmyadmin, IMHO.

So for future reference, is there a way to specify installation 
directory when installing via apt-get or dpkg -i?

Regards,
Andreas