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Best practices for programs manually installed

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VinylxScratches

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Where is the best place to put progs that are not packaged? I have UNetbootin and it doesn't rely on packaging? I downloaded it and chmoded it and I was able to run it.

I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 if that matters.
 
I haven't really run into that much, but I'd probably put it in my home folder. Maybe in a folder called 3rdparty, or something like that.
 
It's a lot of personal preference. If it was a single binary I'd probably just drop it in ~/bin. If it was more than that I'd probably use checkinstall so that I can easily and reliably remove/update it later.
 
/opt needs to die, /usr/local is the place for that kind of thing. I'm extremely disappointed that Google opted (pun intended) to put Chrome in /opt/google even when using their packages.
 
/opt is where it goes. However I have a /home/me/apps folder where I stick things only I use (not something I might want other users like my wife to use.

inside there I have lib, bin, and all the other things you would expect in /usr/local

I then put that in my path.
 
I've found the FSH pretty useful, the only thing that it doesn't address is where to mount an extra data partition/logical volume or permanent NFS share.
 
lxskllr said:
I haven't really run into that much, but I'd probably put it in my home folder. Maybe in a folder called 3rdparty, or something like that.
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Yep! I just put everything in ~/home/<username>

To keep the proggies sorted, I put them in a hidden folder.

Example: In the OP's case, the path would be: ~/home/vinylxscratches/.unetbootin

Works for me... 😉
 
I tend to put it all in /opt under a directory specifically named for the program. That way if I ever want to kill the whole program I can just remove the directory.
 
It totally depends on the program. Some programs come with documentation, even though they're not prepackaged. I *try to put them in their default locations. If they tend to be run by a particular user, I'll drop them in /home/user/program to make rights a little easier to manage.

If they tend to generate a lot logs or file system writes, I'll put them in /usr/local and /var for the portions that generate lots of logs.

/opt is just as good...it's really up to you. As long as you know where it is and know the file system rights are configured so that it's not a huge security hole, you're good.
 
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