Re: New to FC

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article
<kuidh.7481$yj1.4862@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Solution Builder wrote:

I am currently running FC4. My very basic question is this:
1. When you download a application, where is the "right" folder to
download it to?

Your use of the term 'folder' suggests you are also new to *nix. 'folder'
is a term that microsoft stole from Apple, who had stolen it from Xerox
GlobalView in the 1980s. In *nix (as in DOS) they are called 'directories'.

"When you download an application" from where? In what format? As you
appear to be new to this, you really should be sticking with packages
supplied by your distributor - in this case Red Hat. In virtually all
cases, these will be 'rpms' for use by your package manager. In general,
it doesn't matter where you put them - the package manager (when run by
root) will put the binaries, documentation, and what-not in the "right"
place automatically. To see where this might be, run the command
'rpm -ql package_name' for binary packages already installed, or
'rpm -qpl /path/to/uninstalled/package_name-1.2.4-i386.rpm' for packages
not yet installed. Notice the difference between 'package_name' for
stuff that is installed, and the full path to the full name of the package
_file_ for stuff not yet installed.

2. When installing new applications, where is the "right" folder to install
them to?

http://tldp.org/guides.html

* Linux Filesystem Hierarchy

version: 0.65
author: Binh Nguyen, <linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo.com.au>
last update: July 2004
available formats:
1. HTML (read online) 2. HTML (read online, single file, 354k)
3. HTML (tarred and gzipped package, 119k) 4. PDF (601k)
5. PostScript (556k) 6. text (399k)
7. PluckerDB (133k)

This document outlines the set of requirements and guidelines for
file and directory placement under the Linux operating system
according to those of the FSSTND v2.3 final (January 29, 2004) and
also its actual implementation on an arbitrary system. It is meant to
be accessible to all members of the Linux community, be distribution
independent and is intended discuss the impact of the FSSTND and how
it has managed to increase the efficiency of support interoperability
of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and
scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these
systems.

The FHS itself is available from http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. Generally
speaking, if you are installing tarballs, these can be _built_ anywhere
but because they are not part of your distribution, they should go into
/usr/local/* (or into the ~/bin in your home directory if for your use
only) rather than in the system directories. This is actually for ease
of maintenance.

Old guy
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