[ale] /USR vs. /USR/LOCAL

[Marc Ferguson]

Excellent; you guys are a wealth of information. Thanks.



On 5/29/08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, stuff that ships with or is provided by the distribution goes
> in
> /usr whereas stuff you compile yourself goes in /usr/local.
>
> /usr/local even has i's own etc and you can put local-brewed start up
> scripts and configs there.
>
> For nearly all current systems, the path will have /usr/local BEFORE /usr
> so
> your compiled stuff will get found first.
>
> There are some oddball things (like java)  that don't go in /usr/bin or
> /usr/local/bin but they get handled by separate path structures.
>
> For new users the key directories to understand are /home (and the "dot"
> files in $HOME) and probably /usr/share (where things like docs and pixmaps
> and desktop backgrounds hide!) are good things to know about. The basics of
> the structure (i.e. no more C:) and things like unmount before eject (most
> current distros will do it for you) and the general separation of
> privileges
> (i.e. root is dangerous unless you are careful) are good topics to look at
> as well.
>
> 2008/5/29 Marc Ferguson <mferguson at digitalalias.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> *What is the difference between /usr and /usr/local?
>> *
>> I'm very excited that my wife has finally joined the linux community
>> (through openSUSE 10.3).  Now that I have to hold her hand for almost
>> everything she does with the system, she asks lots of questions and /usr
>> vs.
>> /usr/local totally stumps me.  I thought I knew, but trying to explain it
>> to
>> her helped me realize that I don't know the difference.  Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Marc F.
>>
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>> come.."
>> -Rev1:4
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>
>
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> James P. Kinney III
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