On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:57 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 5/23/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:54:26AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Also, whenever I download any program, I install it by moving it into > > > /usr/local/bin and running it from there. That's rpm's, perl programs, > > > and anything else. Is this wrong (or right)? > > > > I'm not sure I'm reading you right here. Are you saying you'd copy > > someprogram-1.0-1.i386.rpm to /usr/local/bin? > > Yes. I would 'su -' to root, 'mv' it to /usr/local/bin, and them 'rpm > -i' it from there. Same for perl programs (mapivi) and the like. > Whatever was left after each install I would just 'rm'. For perl > programs, that was usually the folder that they created and whatever > was in them. > > Is that bad? I'm new to linux and seem to learn best by doing wrong... /usr/local/bin should just contain programs (commands you can run) that you've not installed using RPMs. So in the case of perl programs/scripts, putting them in /usr/local/bin is probably the right thing to do. I usually just download RPMs into my home directory, install them from there and then save away the RPM in a directory below my home directory in case I need it again later (e.g. for another machine). Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
