Hi,
I was installing firefox when firefox asked where to install program files(as its called in windows), i choose my home dir. The installation went smooth. But now i want other user of my computer to able to use firefox. I am using Fedora Core 2. After logging into their dir i was unable to create a link in the panel(the one that contains the redhat symbol-start menu). It was understandable that my files b unaccessible for others. But i want to know where should i install the Program files, so that everybody has a copy of their software. In the case of firefox the users should have their private collection of bookmark, history, etc.

Thank you,

with regards,
ashwin

make a symbolic link somewhere in everyone's path to the binary.

or install it as root to /usr/lib/firefox

Either that, or in /opt/firefox

Some distributions place for installed files is in /usr/lib

and some of them it's in /opt

I personally use /opt though my distro seems to put it in /usr/lib

Every distro has an /opt and if the distro doesn't use it for files by default it'll just be an empty directory.

I tend to install things into /usr/lib or /usr/local.

You might benefit by reading

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/...ilestruct.html

This link tells where everything is.

Sheng-Chieh

i agree, put stuff in /usr so everyone can see it