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

Accepted Answer

```
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.

Set install path using dpkg

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