Douglas Muth on 24 Jan 2006 14:35:55 -0000 |
On 1/24/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > I have been led to believe that the /usr/local branch is where packages > that aren't part of a distro should be installed. I put custom scripts > in /usr/local/bin for that reason. > > But I have also been told that's the purpose of the /opt branch. > > What is the difference between these two and when should one use which? > According to http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html, /opt is for "add on software packages", while /usr/local/ is "for use by the system administrator when installing software locally". I interpret that as a commercial software package (such as say, Oracle) would go in /opt, while building and compiling something from source (like say, Apache) would go in /usr/local/. -- Doug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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