From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 13:15:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B9116A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E2B43D2D for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from [10.0.3.124] (aragorn.lan.elvandar.intranet [10.0.3.124]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE3810685E; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 22:15:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40C37B69.1070301@elvandar.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:15:37 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Thomson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither binaries? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 20:15:38 -0000 Hey Phil, Phil Thomson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a relative *NIX newby running FreeBSD on an somewhat older (750 MHz) > machine. I've been installing programs, and they seem to install in my > home directory by default, but I have my partition table set up so I > don't have much room there. My questions are: 1) is there a better place > to install programs (like /usr/bin for example?) and 2) is there an > established procedure for installing programs in that location by > default? Sorry if the wording of my questions in unclear; let me know if > you have any questions. If you install programs manually you have mostly a option in the ./configure script that enables you to select a prefix. Mostly that prefix will be /usr/local/, there all non default applications will be installed. (./configure --prefix=/usr/local) Also, perhaps it's better to use the ports on a FreeBSD system, you can upgrade them easy with "portupgrade" and they all get installed in the /usr/local directories. HTH, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene