how to install package to a specific hard disk drive partition

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By default apt-get installs packages in the drive that the ubuntu installation resides on. But can i install a package other than the ubuntu partition ? If i can, how to do it ?

Without some extremely advanced skills in remapping various folders to external storage and partitions, it is not normal in Ubuntu-land to put everything into other partitions. And the more partitions/disks you include in your setup the more points of failure you have where you run into single points of failure (extra partitions). — Thomas Ward, Sep 18 '22 at 02:10
See the Filesystem Hierarcy Standard at https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml, or read man hier.
It explains where things go. — waltinator, Sep 26 '23 at 17:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '22 at 23:37

Another option beside the defunct link for another answer's "portable application" which seems to now correlate to the link below, which is a collection of single file AppImages, is to use the other portable package apps like Flatpak or Snap. With these you can symlink the dirs onto another partition.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/portable/files/64bit/

https://appimage.org/

https://flathub.org

https://snapcraft.io

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '11 at 20:13

I have tried to figure out how to do this as well. I have read that you can only install on the default partition. This is because installing on other partitions can cause viruses or unwanted things on your computer. What I have done to get around this is to install the package on the default partition then add a script to the beggining of it that will move the files where you want the first time the program is started.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 13 '11 at 09:56

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Depending on the software, you may be able to find it as a portable application, which you could install wherever you want.

edited May 13 '11 at 09:56

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answered May 13 '11 at 01:57

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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It's not clear why you want this. If it's for space reasons, one viable approach would be to mount large directories (probably /bin or /usr, where many programs reside) in an extra partition. See e.g. this question: How can I store /var on a separate partition? for how to do that.

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answered May 13 '11 at 10:13

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yes, it is for space reasons. – munir May 13 '11 at 19:59

how to install package to a specific hard disk drive partition

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