Installing binaries

[Paul Almquist]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:57, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 5/23/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:54:26AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > Also, whenever I download any program, I install it by moving it into
> > > /usr/local/bin and running it from there. That's rpm's, perl programs,
> > > and anything else. Is this wrong (or right)?
> >
> > I'm not sure I'm reading you right here. Are you saying you'd copy
> > someprogram-1.0-1.i386.rpm to /usr/local/bin?
>
> Yes. I would 'su -' to root, 'mv' it to /usr/local/bin, and them 'rpm
> -i' it from there. Same for perl programs (mapivi) and the like.
> Whatever was left after each install I would just 'rm'. For perl
> programs, that was usually the folder that they created and whatever
> was in them.
>
> Is that bad? I'm new to linux and seem to learn best by doing wrong...
>
> Dotan Cohen
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A guide to how the file system is organized may be found at:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
The filesystem hierarchy standard.  Not all distributions follow this standard 
completely but it will still give you a good idea where things are located 
and why.

-- 
Paul Almquist
paul at almquist.name
Eau Claire, WI  USA