Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:20:43 +0800 From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to put tarball Message-ID: <20030604152043.35ddd1b2.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <004301c329d4$643953b0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> References: <20030603205258.7cb06c79.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <004301c329d4$643953b0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:31:05 -0400 "Kliment Andreev" <klimenta@futurebit.com> wrote: > > I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing > source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, > you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation > says /usr/local is where all your personalized software > > I put the tarballs in /tmp. Then I use make which actually compiles/installs > software. You can override default install directory. After that, I simply > rm -Rf /tmp/tarball. Thanks Kliment. However, I wonder about uninstalling. If I think there's a possibility I'd want to uninstall later, don't I need to preserve the directory for a "make uninstall"? Or is there some other way to uninstall? regards, Robert
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