Installing programs
When I'm installing any program is there any particular directory where I should keep the rpm or tar.gz files and run the installation from there? or can I just run the installation from anywhere. Is the program installed where the installer is? For example, If I download a rpm file to my desktop, can I just run the installation from there, or should I save it in a certain directory?
Please help. Thanx :confused: :newbie: |
some ppl may agree or disagree with what *I* do.
create a directory called tarballs in the /usr/local directory and also a dir called rpms in the /usr/local directory move your files (mv *.tar.gz /usr/local/tarballs - mv *.rpm /usr/local/rpms) now for rpms it *really* doens't matter where you install it. for tarballs sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. so i just always dl the file to /usr/local and untar them there (tar zxvf <name_of_file.tar.gz) then move the tarballs to tje tarballs dir to help keep things organized and clean ------- hope this gets you started! |
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