Install an RPM package into a different directory

In this tutorial, How to install an RPM package into a different directory on Centos.

For example, Install package bind install into another directory /opt/bind.

Using rpm -qi command to check the package have been installed not yet

$ sudo rpm -qi [name-package]

Not all RPM packages can be installed into another directory.

For example, the bind RPM package is not relocatable. You install it then error: package bind is not relocatable

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ rpm -qpi bind-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.el6_10.1.x86_64.rpm | head -1
Name        : bind                         Relocations: (not relocatable)

Install an RPM package into a different directory.

For example, wkhtmltox RPM package as below

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.5/wkhtmltox-0.12.5-1.centos6.x86_64.rpm

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ rpm -qpi wkhtmltox-0.12.5-1.centos6.x86_64.rpm | head -1
Name        : wkhtmltox                    Relocations: /usr/local

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh --prefix=/opt/wkhtmltox wkhtmltox-0.12.5-1.centos6.x86_64.rpm

Check the result installed wkhtmltox on your system.

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ tree /opt/wkhtmltox
/opt/wkhtmltox
├── bin
│   ├── wkhtmltoimage
│   └── wkhtmltopdf
├── include
│   └── wkhtmltox
│       ├── dllbegin.inc
│       ├── dllend.inc
│       ├── image.h
│       └── pdf.h
├── lib
│   ├── libwkhtmltox.so -> libwkhtmltox.so.0.12.5
│   ├── libwkhtmltox.so.0 -> libwkhtmltox.so.0.12.5
│   ├── libwkhtmltox.so.0.12 -> libwkhtmltox.so.0.12.5
│   └── libwkhtmltox.so.0.12.5
└── share
    └── man
        └── man1
            ├── wkhtmltoimage.1.gz
            └── wkhtmltopdf.1.gz

7 directories, 12 files

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