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Where do you put installed stuff on Ubuntu?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262820 views
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Packages installed with synaptic are usually well installed on your system (i.e. bin in /usr/bin/, etc.). However, when a software is not in the repo, I always wonder where I should install it, when everything comes together (i.e. /bin, /var, /man are all subfolders of the main folder of the softwa…

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The usual location us or . From the Linux Directory Hierarchy: These are obsolete folders. When UNIX didn't have a package system (like RPM), sysadmins needed to separate an optional (or local) Software from the main OS. These were the directories u…

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