Guest BooYah Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 I ran across this when I was installing OpenOffice 1.1 beta. In one of the manuals that came with Mandrake, it says /opt is the place to put packages not required for system operation. The OpenOffice installer tries to install here by default. However, the same manual tells me that /usr/local is where I should put all of my personal applications. So I went looking for where OpenOffice 1.01 was installed from my Mandrake CD's, and I found it, as well as all my packages not required for system operation are installed in hidden directories in the /root, i.e./root/.OpenOffice. I think anything I've installed via RPM has been put here. I've put a bunch of things, phoenix, Moziila 1.3, Acrobat Reader, idesk, to name a few in /usr/local. Is this the wrong place? If so, why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef_kunal Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 type "which oowriter" to find out where open office writer is. /root/.OpenOffice is just locally stored settings. usr/local is the right place dont worry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 Yes, those $HOME/.something are user's own configuration settings for programs... but WTH are you running OO.org as root?! and the other programs??? :shock: Root is thougth to be there only for administration tasks, so obviously if you're using the root account rightly it should have the minimum number of files. For example, here is my root/ listing (I'm using mdk 8.1, that means at least one year and a half): /# ls -a root/ ./ .Xdefaults .bashrc .vimrc .xsession-errors ../ .bash_history .fetchmailrc .xauth/ Mail/ .Xauthority .bash_profile .viminfo .xinitrc tmp/ /# About your question about where to put files, here is a link to the Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: 3.12 /opt : Add-on application software packages 3.12.1 Purpose /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. A package to be installed in /opt must locate its static files in a separate /opt/<package> directory tree, where <package> is a name that describes the software package. ... 4.9 /usr/local : Local hierarchy 4.9.1 Purpose The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr. The difference between them is in the nature of UNIX, where there used to be a central server and local clients. HTH :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 I do this: /home user settings/configs /opt software that I install after the mandrake install /stuff this where my files go. This is fine for a one user system, but I doubt this model would work anywhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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