That will basically make a 'portable' version of the software you want to install and will locate it on your home folder. Third, you can always compile from the source. Again, this is not encouraged at all and there is no reason to do this unless you are a developer that wants to test something in particular with that package. To do that, just download the package without installing it with apt-get, uncompress the package and edit the deb manifest and the files/directories you may want to change.

It is not a simple task to do for beginners or intermediate users since you need to handle the deb packaging rules to modify the deb package. Second, of course you can work-around the paths if you know what you are doing. Once you touch the deb, it is actually a very tricky thing to handle. Last on this, each location within a deb goes to the particular GNU/Linux directory in your system, so /usr/share/bin cannot be changed by other, the same for the 'man' pages, icons, etc. So, in short, no you can't change the apt-get install destination of the packages, because it has to do with the packages, not with apt-get. deb file is just a set of compressed directories which, in fact, has the proper install targets within. The first thing to say is that apt-get install does not choose where to install a package, but the package itself specifies that information. The first: apt-get, deb packages, and source packages. I don't know if I understood the problem correctly, so the answer goes in two directions.

Aptget install