Re: installing packages with dpkg as not-root

2004-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > Over on debian-devel, > [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg00624.html], > a thread got started about running "dpkg --force-not-root --root=`pwd`. > > I asked the diff. between that and just extracting it,

installing packages with dpkg as not-root

2004-03-11 Thread Number Six
Over on debian-devel, [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg00624.html], a thread got started about running "dpkg --force-not-root --root=`pwd`. I asked the diff. between that and just extracting it, and was told it would "update *a* (not *the*) package database). So