Re: Manual Installs

From: Ed Hurst (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 08/28/04

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    Margo wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > Being brand new to Linux in general I have some basic questions.
    >
    > Example situation:
    >
    > I always use the latest version of Thunderbird - I love the program.
    > I've already noticed that the Suse rpm's aren't up to the latest
    > version. So I went ahead bravely and downloaded the tar.gz (with a big
    > breath) .. Anyway I have extracted it and everything works but my actual
    > question is this:
    >
    > When I am installing programs in this way (ie manually) where is the
    > best place to put them? Should I put them in my home directory or is
    > there a more "default" place I should put them? eg. The equivalent of
    > Win's Program Files.

    The Mozilla group of applications usually default to /usr/local/ and
    this is fine. 

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Ed Hurst
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