On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:15:31PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without > really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse > for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir > structure so that all users will have access to them? Is there a 'right' > place or does it matter as long as they are outside a users home dir? > there is not necessarily a "right" place. It is common however, to put things that are not handled by the apt system into /opt or perhaps into /usr/local depending on your preference or system requirements. see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html A
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