[ale] File System for Newbs

[Greg Freemyer]

Marc,

Are you doing this just on your own machine(s)?

Or are you releasing a tool that others are installing?

I think /usr/local is treated as a directory for the local admin to
utilize.  If I have to do ./configure; make; make install then the
/usr/local tree is typically my target.

/opt is typically used for decent sized add-on packages to reside in.

fyi: the issue may be your choice of /usr/local/share/applications.  I
don't even have that directory on my distro.  Did you create it
yourself?

Greg

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.
>
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