Installing apps in general

[FoulPlay]

So, to my own surprise, I managed to install Firefox on the first shot. I used a terminal to extract the tar file then I opened the folder and ran the shell script to install it. Anyway my crazy question is this. Where do you tend to install your apps? It asked me where I want to install it so I just created a 'apps' folder in /home/brian/.

 

Now I'm a bit anal when it comes to file organization and it bothers me for it to be there. I'd rather reserve /home/brian/ for my downloads, documents, etc.

 

 

On the same note. Do you have to do anything special to unistall an app or can you just delete the folder?

 

Thanks.

[devries]

This is for rpms but you get the idea: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=20624&st=15

 

You can install Firefox anywhere on your system if you are 'root'. Open a console, log in as root and start the installer).

 

Btw there is an rpm for the latest firefox at mcnl (an urpmi repository)

[daniewicz]

I placed firefox in /opt

 

/ root directory

/opt where most 3rd party progs are kept

/etc where most config files are kept

/bin essential command binarys/(exe's)

/sbin essential system bin

/tmp tempory files

/lib shared libarys and kernel modules

/dev device nodes

[theYinYeti]

I wrote an article on this subject:

http://yves.gablin.club.fr/pc/linux.php?ar...oftware/install

 

Yves.