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Hi

I would like to know were the best place is to install software for Linux.

E.g. I have downloaded MTV for Linux but I don’t know were the best place is to install it so that all the users can access it.
Should I create a directory under /usr and install it there?

You can install is anywhere that you can remember then make a symlink from say /usr/local/bin to the file. So say you installed a program in /usr/local/someDir/bin/someBinary you can simply put a symlink in /usr/local/bin (or somewhere else sensible like /usr/bin /bin etc...) using something like

Code:

ln -s /usr/local/someDir/bin/someBinary /usr/local/bin/someBinary

All your users will now be able to access that program... I think that MTV might have some strange issue with needing environment set to run like this though... again have a look at some supplied documentation...

HTH

Jamie...