Installing synce from tarballs: where to install?

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:02 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 10:32 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 22/02/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> > > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > > I intend to install Synce on FC6 to sync my Dell Axim x50v with
> > > > Kontact. I'm installing via tarballs as the rpms are two years out of
> > > > date. To where should I install the tarballs? Opt? Etc? Anywhere else?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > I normally use the /usr/local tree.
> > >
> > 
> > /usr/local already has stuff in it, and I'd like to keep the
> > tarball-installed stuff separate from the yum-installed stuff.
> > Actually, I was thinking about using /opt. My main concern is
> > dependancies: if a yum installed package needs package foo-1.0 and I
> > install a tarball that wants foo-0.9 then I want to be able to install
> > foo-0.9 in /opt with the tarballed stuff.
> > 
> > Dotan Cohen
> Well both /opt and /usr/local could both we argued to be the place to do
> this. In one sense /opt is for optional added packages so it should be
> ok but be sure you change the default PATH variable to include the
> appropriate /opt bin directories.

Ah, the good ole Caldera days! :) Ric

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