Where to install application A?

mad_ady · 03-14-2003, 12:13 PM

I'm developing an application for KDE, and I was wondering... Where should I install it? I mean, when the user runs 'make install', where should I send the files to?

I have an executable (KFortune) a symlink (kfortune) and a bunch of files used by the executable, not to mention some help html's.

Where should all these files go to?

acid_kewpie · 03-14-2003, 12:29 PM

just let make install it to the system defaults, which will most probably be /usr/local/bin for the binary

mad_ady · 03-15-2003, 09:04 AM

Ok. I agree that the binary should be in /usr/local/bin. But where should I put the rest of the files? Should I make a /usr/local/share/kfortune where to dump all the other files?