This is what i am trying to do it now. I have installed apt-rpm in my local directory, but still it needs etc and var, just figuring how to change these root directory dependencies. -- Regards Rajesh Kumar R.K On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:43 AM, sivakumar <sivakumar at collab.net> wrote: > Yep it is going to be a waste of space !!. +1 on the above.