/opt is missing

[Francisco Borges]

» On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:25PM +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:

> Any idea why /opt is missing? Does everyone else have the /opt
> directory?

Because Debian (and therefore Ubuntu for that matter) doesn't use /opt
for nothing. Some third party packages *might* install themselves
there. But "official" debian/ubuntu packages will not install anything
there:

dpkg --search "/opt/*"

will give you nothing.

-- 
Francisco