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Re:Install Debian packages without starting daemons by cdjk on Friday June 27, 2014 @10:18AM (#7953995)
I've used stow to manage installs under /use/local before, which seems like a slightly easier approach. It does something similar but manages the install as a series of symlinks from /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/stow/<packagename>/bin.

It's pretty easy to setup and works the same on any distro.

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Re:Install Debian packages without starting daemons by SkyMarshal on Friday June 27, 2014 @01:48PM (#7955270)
I tried stow a while back too but there was something I didn't like about it, but can't remember. It might have been that stow only supports a single version of each package or something, less flexibility in putting version no in the paths, maybe?
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