How to install packages to a custom location in centos6

Question

I have a shared location, let me call it /tp I want to install all my libraries and packages in this location just like the default install. Reason to do this is: I want all the users in the network connected to this server to link their programs to this particular location to pick up libraries for the program. Could someone help me do this.

The closest I came to was using (for example) yum install boost --installroot=/tp/. This did not work as the yum started looking for mirror list in this location. I want the installation to be done in the location /tp/

Your help will be much appreciated. This is a set up I am doing for a college to promote Linux use in their labs.

Answer 1

the installroot tool is usefull for situations like installing packages into a chroot environment. try installing all the yum configuration and repo files into /tp, keeping their respective paths, and your custom package installation will work. (eg: /tp/etc/yum.conf).

in such a case /tp will be prepended to any files that are read or written by yum. that includes configurations files, yum log files, repository information, etc.

Answer 2

From the rpm man page:

   --prefix NEWPATH
          For relocatable binary packages, translate all file  paths  that
          start  with  the  installation  prefix in the package relocation
          hint(s) to NEWPATH.

   --relocate OLDPATH=NEWPATH
          For relocatable binary packages, translate all file  paths  that
          start with OLDPATH in the package relocation hint(s) to NEWPATH.
          This option can be used repeatedly if several OLDPATH's  in  the
          package are to be relocated.