installing software to places like /usr/local

[Robert Parker]

Greetings,

On 12/16/06, ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>
>
> Convention seems to suggest that I should have used something like
> /opt/bin   which I told the java install bin to use. Not sure if I had
> to create the directory first though.


The procedure I use for 3rd party non-packaged software is to install to
/opt/<supplier name>/bin.
After that, rather than clutter up my $PATH with many entries, I put a
symlink in /usr/local/bin to the executeable.

Apart from those symlinks, I use /usr/local/bin for home grown programs and
scripts.

You can follow a similar method for man pages.

Bob
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