Looking for howto on linux directory-structure
Hi...
can anyone post a link to a good howto, explaining how the directories are correctly used in linux? I'm often not sure, where to install programs etc.... thx, regards and happy new year bR0Nk0 |
This might be helpful:
http://www.geocities.com/lunatech300...l/howto_4.html |
this was indeed helpful.
thx alot bR0Nk0 |
Directory structure and using depend on you distributive.
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No, it is usually almost same in all distros.
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Here is a link to a pdf reference manual for the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.2.pdf Normally, when you install a program from a source tarball, the last step is to as root, type: make install. This will install the software components were they need to go. |
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As far as where to install programs, packages often go where they want to go and I redirect source compiles (except on Gentoo, where everything is) to /usr/local - which is where they're supposed to go by default but not all do. For the home user, it hardly matters, though - most of Linux's directory structure is overly complex and dependent on multi-user multi-machine assumptions with users who can't be root and so on. Still, Slackware won't clobber /usr/local in an upgrade, iirc. |
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