[ale] User-specific software installation. ~/bin vs ~/.local/bin vs ??

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you want to make it available to other users on the system, you
> might put stuff in /usr/local/.  The LFHS indicates that /usr/local or
> /opt should be used for applications that are not provided by your
> linux distro.  If you're creating etc and a bunch of directory
> structure, typically people chose /opt for that, for example oracle
> puts it's stuff in /opt/oracle-*
>

I put Oracle in /dev/null where it belongs.


Most distro $PATH variables list ~/bin for non-root users.

>
> -Scott
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When you install software specific to your user (as many third party
> > game installers want to do by default, and many `make` processes are
> > capable of doing if so instructed), where do you put it? I have an
> > entire root hierarchy in ~/.local (that is, ~/.local/bin ~/.local/var
> > ~/.local/usr ~/.local/etc etc) that I let such things install to. I've
> > encountered other people who simply have ~/bin ~/etc ~/opt etc. Are
> > there other schemes? Are there any standards on this matter?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I have a ~/bin on the multiple machines that I grep through for scripts
> of
> >> interest. Sadly it's all very, very specific so of no use on any other
> >> system.
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