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/usr/local or /opt?
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Mar 15, 202630012 viewsConfidence Score1%
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How do you generally proceed for your package installations on Linux, for packages that are not part of your distrib's repos? On my side I am used to install in /opt. But since, I saw this doc on the Internet: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. Now I am confused: apparently /usr/local would be also a possibility. What is the difference between both? Any best practices to share? Thanks SirFabel
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Everything that has to be compiled & installed Unix-style and complies to FHS -> Everything else (e.g. a java web-application that comes with it's own applicationserver and loads of resources in a zip archive ->
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