Installing TKnet - where to unpack it?
I'm setting up my Debian GNU/Linux system "the hard way". By that I mean
that I'm adding just the packages that I need, one at a time using the
"dpkg" tool. It's worked OK for basic stuff like "man" and the Xwindows
packages. So far, I like the control this give me over what goes on my
system. It's a bit time consuming but that's OK.
Now I'm ready to install my first non-package piece of software, TKnet.
I've downloaded the tknet1_1.tgz file from the TKnet site onto a floppy
and now I'm ready to install.
Where is the "preferred" place to install TKnet? There's a directory
called /usr/local/bin on my system. I believe I read somewhere that
putting non-Debian-supplied software there helps in maintenance down the
road one day. OTOH, I also vaguely remember reading that /usr/local is
for software on my particular machine that isn't in a shared-mount
directory such as /usr is in some workgroup environments.
Bottom line. Where would be the most "standard" place to put that .tgz
file and unpack it? And what reasons, if any, are there to even worry
about where it goes? Maybe I'm just being paranoid (my understanding of
Unix in general and Linux is particular is very lacking).
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