Re: Acrobat 7.0 for linux is out

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:22:34 -0500
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:37 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 23:34 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > * Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> [2005 Mar 15 09:44 -0600]:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > >
> > > > OK.  Figured it out.  On one box I linked /opt/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread
> > > > into /usr/local/bin and on the other into /opt/bin (I had added /opt/bin
> > > > to the PATH variable in /etc/profile).  That is what was causing the
> > > > problem.  I did some google searching and found that /etc/login.defs
> > > > gets read in before the login process starts.  So I updated ENV_PATH and
> > > > ENV_SUPATH in /etc/login.defs to contain /opt/bin.  I then rebooted the
> > > > machine (it's a laptop and never gets much uptime anyway) just to be
> > > > sure.  However, this did not do it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Where the heck does /opt come in to the picture?  Is that where
> > > you want to store non-dpkg-managed binaries?
>
> Its what red-hat uses by default for self compiled and non-packaged binaries
> (possibly others, not sure). Debian prefers/usr/local/, thus no /opt by default
> on debian.

Are you sure about that story ?
Recently I installed Sarge on a Desktop:
there was a /opt directory.

Anyhow I have linked it to

/usr/local/opt

as my /usr/local

is mounted on its own partition.

Furthermore, I think that a lot of people do that.

hth,
Jerome

> > Yeah.  /usr/local for self-compiled and/or customized free software
> > packages.  /opt for non-free stuff (Acrobat, icc, etc).
> >
> > -Roberto
> >
> > --
> > Roberto C. Sanchez
> > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
>
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