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Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?



On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> debian-user:
> 
> Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide
> software from source tarballs?  For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv:
> 
>     http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
> 
>     http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

My guess would be /usr/local. Either there, or in /opt, though I
prefer /usr/local for building from source/installing.

Greg


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