Paul Howarth wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 22:14 -0300, Leandro Melo wrote:
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Other people have answered your question regarding shortcuts, but I thought I'd mention that if you're installing non-RPM software on to your system, the best place for it to go is /usr/local/bin, not /usr (ideally, /usr/local would be a separate partition too, so that you can do a fresh install of the system, completely discarding the contents of /usr but still keeping /usr/local the way it is). Putting things in /usr runs the risk of them being overwritten by a subsequent installation of an RPM-based package (which almost invariably install into /usr).
Paul.
Two questions, please. 1. Is /opt as safe?
I think so; I don't think any Red Hat/Fedora packages put anything in /opt. You might find that commercial packages put things there though, if you use any of those.
2. re: shortcuts. How do I get my link to display the true path? I have a symlink to /usr/share/xxx. When I browse this (also at a terminal prompt) , it shows the path as "/home/nat/Desktop/theLinkName", but many times I prefer to have it show the true path, "/usr/share/xxx".
Re: appearance on the desktop; no idea (I never create shortcuts on the desktop myself - just out of habit rather than because I think it's a bad thing to do [which I don't]). At the terminal prompt, if you use the "-L" option to "ls", it'll show you details of the file being linked to rather than the details of the link itself.
Paul.
