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Re: Oracle 10g installer anyone?



On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:22:43AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> /opt/ is okay, but maybe you should provide the mechanism by which a
> local admin can change the installation root. 
> 
> FHS:
> 
>    Distributions may install software in /opt, but must not modify or
>    delete software installed by the local system administrator without
>    the assent of the local system administrator.

Sounds like if you want to use it, you need to check if there already was
something there (manually installed by the sysadmin) and fail to install if
there was.  Doesn't sound like a very nice way to install to me, but
appearantly it is allowed.

Thanks,
Bas

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