Re: Installing TKnet - where to unpack it?
It depends. Usually the install in the archive will put it where it goes
anyway.
You can put it anyplace you want. /usr/X11R6/bin would be the normal
place, I'd think.
As far as unpacking it, just make a temp dir. I put mine in /Incoming.
If it's a binary archive it most likely is archived with the correct
directories in which case "tar xvzf archive.tgz -C /" will put the files
in place.
Note: You can controle what goes on your system with dselect as well as
dpkg.
On Sat, 17 May 1997, Brent Hutto wrote:
> 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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