Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:06:30 -0700 (PDT) From: vass D <vassd2000@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: best place for installing... Message-ID: <20010903220630.30882.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com>
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hi again. just an easy question i'm sure... there are some apps that dont go to the right directories. Geotrace for example. if you untar the source and make, it creates an executable in the same place you have untared it, not in bin. same with mozilla i got today. if you untar (not port) it just creates a dir (in the current directory) and throws everything in it. then you change to that directory, type mozilla and it runs. now, the obvious thing is to create a link in the bin dir for the executable. The question though is: which is the best place to put the whole directory that was created? /usr/lib? /usr/X11R6/lib ? or some other place? i'm newbie and find it a bit confusing, especialy the fact that there are more than one bin, lib etc. like /bin /usr/bin ... i'm just trying to avoid making a mess... thanks and sorry for long post. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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