Installing + packages go where?

conno · 02-27-2003, 05:41 PM

I have been reading up on installing source programs (tarbal), and from what i can gather it says to put the package into the source folder.

It then says if it is a system program then it goes in /usr/src, and if it is a user program it goes in usr/local/src. My question is how do you know which packages are which, and also do packages always go into these two directories?

thanks

conno

snocked · 02-27-2003, 06:08 PM

Do you mean taped archives as in .tar? If so, when you extra it, it should create a dir with the install script.

conno · 02-27-2003, 07:19 PM

A gzipped tar file. A dir with the install script? I dont follow...?

conno

mhearn · 02-28-2003, 04:34 AM

Hmm, you can ignore that advice, it's years old. /usr/src and /usr/local/src have been deprecated for a while.

I just use ~/Source for my source packages, there is no "special" place to extract them, just put them anywhere you have write access to (ie your home dir)

conno · 02-28-2003, 06:28 AM

I see. So it doesnt matter where you put the source package, cos when you install it, it will send all the packages to their correct places?

conno

mhearn · 02-28-2003, 10:51 AM

Yep, basically. Just extract it somewhere convenient (ie in your home dir), and do the ./configure, make, make install sequence. If all goes according to plan, it'll be integrated with the system. Keep that directory around, you'll be able to do "make uninstall" in theory to get rid of it later.

conno · 02-28-2003, 11:17 AM

Thats wicked, cheers mike. Thanks snocked too for your help.

conno