How can I install any package in a particular directory with apt-get?

Question

I would like to know if there is any way that I can make apt-get to install packages in a directory other than /usr/bin. Say I want apt-get to install all the packages from now on to /software. Its this possible in anyway ? I want something to work like --prefix option that we use while compiling source.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use dpkg instead of apt-get which will give you more options.
One of the option is to specify an installation directory. You can execute sudo dpkg -i file.deb --instdir=destdir where destdir is your desired installation directory.