Re: [PLUG] /usr/local vs. /opt

[schwepes@netaxs.com]

This discussion seems to explain to me why I have been banging my head
against the wall to get permissions working and not succeeding.
SuSE installed the .kde utilities in /opt and so I have found that
kppp only works from root and not from "user."  Looks like I have to
learn how to use proper symbolic links.
Thanks for accidently answering my question.
bs


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, John Von Essen wrote:

> Well, oracle goes in /u01 - but thats a different story all together.
>
> /opt is big in the Sun world. Sun likes /usr/local for non-core system
> things, while /opt is used for everything else.
>
> You cant get away from it because alot of Sun packages are built to
> install in /opt.
>
> Outside of Sun, I would only use /usr/local.
>
> -John
>
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Douglas Muth wrote:
>
> > 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
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