software directory (slackware 12)

[bunty82]

hi
with your help i learned how to install software in slackware
this is what i had done till now

go into
directory
/usr/local/src
there i paste my all unzipped software folders
from there
i go into software folders
let c if i want to install beryl
i will go like
/usr/local/src/beryl#
i type
./configure
some script runs
after that i type
make
again a lot of things go
after that
i type
make install
and installation done
now problem is
where does those software goes
i installed
slapt-get
beryl
emerald
only thing i am retrieve is
slapt-get that to in terminal window
with lots of option
help

[Dapper Dan]

hi
with your help i learned how to install software in slackware
this is what i had done till now
go into
directory
/usr/local/src
there i paste my all unzipped software folders
from there
i go into software folders
let c if i want to install beryl
i will go like
/usr/local/src/beryl#

You don't have to run anything you download for installation from /usr/local/src/. You may have picked that up somewhere about a certain app. Source files can be run from whererver you downloaded them, which is likely going to be from your Desktop.

.tgz packages for Slackware should be run with pkgtool or kpackage if you like a "GUI" for installing Slackware packages.

Most but certainly not all Linux programs get installed to /usr/bin. Sometimes it's /usr/local/bin or /opt/kde/bin etc/ A "/bin" almost always preceeds it. When I'm not sure of where the "executable" for an app is installed to, I just run:

updatedb

Then:

locate beryl

As a for instance, if it installed in /usr/local/bin, I'd run the app that way...

/usr/local/bin/beryl

...and so on.