[NTLUG:Discuss] Sysadmin type question: Where should programs go?

[Burton Strauss]

Yes - ANOTHER flame fest...  Gotta love it.


The two (obvious - Ha!) choices are /usr/local and /opt

One discussion of this (obviously biased in favor of LSB) is at
http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/install-app.html


-----Burton


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of John K. Taber
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:26 AM
To: 'NTLUG Discussion List'
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sysadmin type question: Where should programs go?

I settled on Thunderbird for a newsreader. It is installed in a login user's
id. No real problem because I'm the only user. 

But suppose I had several users and installed Thunderbird so that each could
use it. 

Where should the system administrator put the package? In /usr/local? 

In other words, I got the impression that some directories are there for a
purpose. I'm too new to Linux to understand what the purposes are, so if you
were installing Thunderbird on one computer for the use of several users,
where would you put it?

Moving right along,
John


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