Set install path using dpkg

Question

I'd like to install some deb package dpkg -i modeller_9.13-1_amd64.deb

consisted of some python modules. What frag should I provide to dpkg to set the install path during installation instead of default dir (on default to python dir(?

Thanks for help,

Gleb

Answer 1

dpkg-deb -x $DEBFILE $TARGET_DIRECTORY

or if you don't have any debian tools at hand

ar p $DEBFILE data.tar.gz | tar -C $TARGET_DIRECTORY -xz

With more recent packages it might be data.tar.xz or something else though.