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I have installed checkinstall using the rpm -ivh command
now everytime i need to use this program i have to go under the directory where it was installed. /usr/local/checkinstall
is there anyway to ad that to my PATH so i could just execute checkinstall from any directory without having to right the whole path
but when i intall the checkinstall using "rpm -ivh checkinstall xx" it intall the package under /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall which is not in the PATH... my question is shouldn't rpm intall all software under /usr/local which by default is in the PATH? and is it safe to export /usr/local/sbin to the PATH ? can i just cp /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall to /usr/local?
No, it shouldn't if the application is allowed to
perform system critical tasks - software installation
is one of them, checkinstall should only be run
as root, and thus rightfully lives in ./sbin which
is in roots path but not in normal users' ...
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