What is the conventional install location for applications in Linux?
Problem
I'm currently installing NetBeans, and the default install directory is . I'm not a fan of that location, so I'm looking at , , , and . Does Linux have a place that, by convention, is the same as Windows' directory?
Error Output
/home/thomasowens/netbeans-6.8
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According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, there are several places that are acceptable, depending on the application. I'm quoting from it extensively here. is short for "binary" of course is short for "server binary", otherwise defined as: Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands) is for shareable, read-only data, and should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts (if you have lots of machines on your network, and they're all the same architecture, y…
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