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Thomasasia

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Registered: 2020-03-04

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Installing with makepkg in an alternate directory?

I would like to have Unity on my machine. However, according to the wiki, it's really big. I don't want to install it in my root partition due to size constraints, so how do I build/install it into a different directory (preferably in my /home/)?

Is it as simple as excluding --install when running makepkg, and extracting the .pkg.tar.xz?

Thanks for your help!

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: Installing with makepkg in an alternate directory?

Can't you just mount /opt/Unity from some other partition? Or use a bind mount.

Last edited by eschwartz (2020-03-05 20:32:44)

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Installing with makepkg in an alternate directory?

makepkg would build the package but not install it.  If you then install the package using pacman -U will have the same result as makepkg --install.  How are you envisaging installing the package?
If you are planning on using unity-editor it installs most of the contents under /opt/Unity you could bind mount some directory under /home to /opt or /opt/Unity .
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Thomasasia

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Registered: 2020-03-04

Posts: 2

Re: Installing with makepkg in an alternate directory?

Can't you just mount /opt/Unity from some other partition? Or use a bind mount.

makepkg would build the package but not install it.  If you then install the package using pacman -U will have the same result as makepkg --install.  How are you envisaging installing the package?
If you are planning on using unity-editor it installs most of the contents under /opt/Unity you could bind mount some directory under /home to /opt or /opt/Unity .
Edit:
misread post

Thanks, I'll try that