where do you usually install your apps?

**cometfly** · 10-21-2005

I am curious as to where applications are usually installed...because I dont know where I should install my apps...lol

**serz** · 10-21-2005

By default they're installed in /usr/local. You can install them there or at /usr.

**cometfly** · 10-21-2005

Originally Posted by serz

By default they're installed in /usr/local. You can install them there or at /usr.

lol, i didnt know that...

**eyolf** · 10-23-2005

A related question: if I install in /usr or usr/local, and then reinstall linux, will all the programs have to be reinstalled then as well? Can I install them in my home partition instead?

**smolloy** · 10-23-2005

You could put /usr into a separate partition as well, and then you won't have to reintall them.

**eyolf** · 10-23-2005

Thanks. Why didn't I think of that? (answer: perhaps because I'm a newbie...)
This seems to be so convenient that it makes we wonder why this isn't recommended as the default. Are there any disadvantages with it? In terms of speed? Or in any other way?
And: I assume that I'd have to make sure the new partition is mounted at startup as /usr through some combination of thirteen different commands in thirteen different config files somewhere in the /boot folder...? Or is there a neat KDe tool that will do it?

**smolloy** · 10-23-2005

It is recommended a lot, but for people new to linux most people recommend they just have one partition with everything inside it -- for some people linux is different enough that any talk of extra partitions and editing configuration files would be too scary, and they might just give up completely.

I'm not sure what the disadvantages are, although I'm sure there are some.

All you'd have to do is edit one file -- /etc/fstab -- to let linux know that /usr, /home, /var, whatever are located on different partitions that should be mounted at startup. Don't be scared of configuration files

**eyolf** · 10-23-2005

Oh, I'm not scared of them - I love them, but there are so many of them... I have my head swimming in different locations (etc? usr? just learning the names takes some time)
Thanks a lot anyway! I'll make another partition some day...

**a thing** · 10-23-2005

They should go in /usr/local/.

**msg43** · 10-23-2005

I install most regular programs in /usr
and must huge ass programs in /opt
sytem programs in /sbin
and thats mainly because its how my distro does it

Thread Tools

Display

where do you usually install your apps?

Posting Permissions