From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 20:32:52 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 20:32:50 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.thesadmachine.org (dsl254-008-078-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5597837B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24178 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Dec 2000 04:42:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2000 04:42:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 22:42:02 -0600 (CST) From: brian william wolter To: "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Install Directory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG according to the Filesystems Hierarchy Standard 1 (FHS) Version 2.1 /sbin, /bin, and /usr are reserved for the base OS and it's dependant packages. more or less essential packages are to be built and installed in /usr/local/bin. non-essential applications and add-ons are to be installed in /opt// (with binaries in /opt//bin). and technically you're supposed to create a seperate disk partition for /opt. hope that helps. peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Jack Juil Harris, Jr. wrote: > There are plenty of good applications that are not part of "Packages" > > Where is a good place to install them? > /usr/local ? > /usr/home/ ? > /usr/local/etc ? > /usr/local/share ? > > I know I could install them anywhere but where is a "secure" place to do so. > > I dont want to have my trash all over the system. > Thanks... IN Advance. > ______________________________ > Jack J. Harris, Jr. > me@jharris.com > http://www.jharris.com/~jackh/ > PagerMail mailto:jackcell@jharris.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message