Avoiding LVM -

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/03/13 23:41, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 03/04/13 11:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> That is because you haven't put anything there.....
>>
>> I have plenty of stuff in /usr/local which I've built manually since they were either home-grown or didn't have rpms to install.  Put it there and it is available to all users.
>
> Yes I figured that, but didn't know what they were for. I have a directory /home/bobg/apps that I created to put stuff in. I just keep copying that into new installs. Convention is to use /usr/local/ then?
>

Yes, if you want others using the system to have access.  Also, if you build some apps from their tar files and they have a "configuration" script the process normally defaults to ....

configure
make
make install

And "make install" by default puts the needed things in /usr/local whatever....

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