Software Installations (file structure)

edzvan · 01-28-2005, 05:25 AM

pls help!!!

i've been running fc2 on computer 4 about 6 months. i've install software using rpm's and tarballz. my questions, however r is there a standard of installing the software, where in the file structure does one download to, and if one is compiling from where does on do it? i.e. do u download to /usr or to /home. when u ./make do u do it from a specific directory????

could someone pls help?? and give a step by step of the "right" way to do it?

regards

edz

jschiwal · 01-28-2005, 05:39 AM

As far as the source downloads, you can download it where you have access. I have a subdirectory in my home directory called 'downloads'. This makes it easy to backup downloads in case I need them again. Some people download to /var/tmp.

The 'make install' phase as root will install the application files where they need to go, usually under either /usr or /usr/local.

theYinYeti · 01-28-2005, 06:49 AM

See my article about software installation:
http://yves.gablin.club.fr/linux/ind...ftware/install

Yves.

edzvan · 01-28-2005, 09:10 AM

hi guys

thanx for the prompt responses, i really appreciate it. haven't read yves article yet, will do so later.

regards

edz

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