[SOLVED] Install OOo on a partition other than /?

[mikkl]

Is there a way to install OpenOffice on a partition other than /?

I have a ASUS eeepc900 and 780Mb of free space left on / (which, on this machine, is a separate SSD and so no room to expand /).  I suspect that with some tweaking of GetOpenOffice, or doing a manual install, I could get OOo to install and have ~200 - 300 Mb of space left on /.  

I am concerned that this is not enough space for future updates, etc and so am thinking I would be better off installing OOo on the second partition/hard drive.

Opinions and pointers are appreciated.

mikkl

[kjpetrie]

There might be a way, as OOO lives in /opt which is rarely used by other apps. If you have nothing else in /opt or /opt doesn't exist you can just do what's below. Otherwise you might have to copy the current contents of /opt (preferable as an archive - cp -a ...) to the new location first.

What is on the second partition? If it is blank you could simply set /opt as its mount point in PCC and mount it. Voila!

If it is /home, you could create a directory called /home/opt and then create /opt as a symbolic link to /home/opt.

Either way, OOO should now install to the new location on the other partition.

[mikkl]

Thanks, that was a good pointer.  /opt was not empty, so I used cp -a to create /home/opt and then, using Konq as root I deleted /opt and then made a link titled /opt pointing to /home/opt.

Finished up by using GetOpenOffice and successfully installed OOo where desired.

Thanks.

mikkl