Out of pure curiosity, what program would you want installed directly on the desktop? <div>On 8/24/07, Marc Rios <<a href="mailto:marcrios84@gmail.com">marcrios84@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">you can do it with this: dpkg -i *.deb --instdir=<directory> where directory in your case would be /root/Desktop ;) <div>2007/8/24, hong zhang <<a href="mailto:henryzhang62@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> henryzhang62@yahoo.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! <a href="http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 </a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div></div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Shawn McCuan <a href="mailto:smccuan@gmail.com">smccuan@gmail.com</a> Support a national vote in the US! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact</a> <a href="http://www.nationalpopularvote.com">http://www.nationalpopularvote.com </a>