[ale] File System for Newbs

[Richard Bronosky]

I configure with --prefix=~/local/ I think of is as my personal
/usr/local. That way my paths are fairly similar whether I have root
on the box or not. The because important when you copy your .bashrc
everywhere.

On 7/28/09, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> When installing packages via means other than your systems package
> manager there are a few schools of thought. The one common idea,
> though, is that you don't want to install into the system paths.
>
> If I have root level access to a machine I prefer to install into
> /opt/<package>. If I do not have root access, I install into
> ~/bin/<package> (should probably make that ~/opt/, but *shrug* it's my
> home directory).
>
> So let's say I'm building package `foo`. Provided it comes with
> autoconf build scripts, I do:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/foo
> $ make && make install
>
> Then I should have `/opt/foo/bin/foo`. When I decide that I no longer
> want the foo package installed I merely `rm -rf /opt/foo` and remove
> any path variables I had set for it.
>
> Another option is to install to /usr/local. In this case, some would
> do `./configure --prefix=/usr/local` and others would do `--prefix
> /usr/local/foo`. I don't usually install to /usr/local so I'll let
> someone else make the argument for it.
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Marc Ferguson<marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'd like some guidance in figuring out where do I install programs? I got
>> some flack from a group in a #songbird IRC channel for putting the package
>> in /usr/local/share/applications.  The nice one, pointed me to Red Hat
>> docs
>> and from there I found my way to pathname.com.  I think I've seen this
>> site
>> before, but it's a bit too long for my taste. I started to look through it
>> and fell by the wayside.
>>
>> http://proton.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
>>
>> After my reading, I'm confused. It looks like applications should be
>> installed in the /opt folder.  I could be totally wrong, in my thinking,
>> but
>> I don't want to install apps in my /home directory.  Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Marc Ferguson
>>
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>>
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>>
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