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I need to install a vendor package onto a non-default directory (say /opt). By default, package gets installed in /usr/local/bin directory.
If I use command rpm -ivh package.x86_64.rpm --root /opt I get error message /bin/sh is needed by package.x86_64. After doing Google, my understanding is that it happens because rpm is looking for dependencies in /opt directory. Is that true?
Given that I don’t have vendor SPEC file, is it possible to fix this problem somehow?
I think you want the rpm option –prefix, not –root. –prefix will install into a different root directory for relocatable rpms, whereas –root uses the path at –root “for all operations” (from the man page) even dependency checks.