ubuntu directory structure

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Thu May 12 15:29:56 UTC 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:59:15AM -0400, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Is there a place that specifies which files should go where in the
> directory structure?  I am trying to package some software and want to
> make sure everything goes in the right place.

Well, there's the man page for hier(7), but that's a more
general hierarchy. Try here too:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/

I'm not sure how closely that corresponds to what Debian
does. I think it's pretty close, but if anything I suspect
that Debian *removes* a few of those.

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