Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?
On 09/18/13 14:57, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> My guess would be /usr/local. Either there, or in /opt, though I
> prefer /usr/local for building from source/installing.
On 09/19/13 02:25, recoverym4n@gmail.com wrote:
Please invoke 'man hier' and read it.
Accoring to the man page,
/usr/local This is where programs which are local to the site typically go.
Thanks for the replies. :-)
I've considered both /opt and /usr/local.
TLDP has some interesting information on both -- /opt looks like the
classical location and /usr/local looks like the currently popular location:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/opt.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
Debian seems to favor /usr/local:
- man (7) hier on both Squeeze and Wheezy makes small mention of /opt
and has twelve entries for /usr/local and /usr/local/*.
- /opt exists, but is empty on both Squeeze and Wheezy.
- /usr/local/lib contains Perl modules I've installed from CPAN.
- /usr/local/share contains Perl modules I've built from source via
ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
- /usr/local/bin contains Perl programs I've installed from CPAN or
built from source.
- /usr/local/man contains man pages for the above Perl modules and
programs.
- /usr/local/go contains the Go programming language binary
distribution.
So, the canonical Debian location for installing third-party software
would seem to be either:
/usr/local/<project>
Or:
/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/doc, /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/games,
/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/info,
/usr/local/man, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/share
The canonical Debian location for building software from source code
would seem to be:
/usr/local/src/<project>
But, this implies working as root. I prefer building in my home
directory as a normal user, and finishing with "sudo make install",
"sudo vi /etc/<projectrc>", etc..
Does anybody have any compelling arguments for building as root under
/usr/local/src?
David
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