Craig White writes: >On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:33 +0200, Phet Whore Meyer wrote: >> Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query >> for now: >> In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files', >> in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called? >---- >/usr/bin er, sort of, but not really. for files that are a core part of a distribution, well, yes. outside of that, you're more likely to see files being added to /usr/local/bin for very sound reasons. and then, of course, there are /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and a few others. for software that presumes a solaris model, you may see /opt as the root location, although this isn't very common in linux environments (however, /opt is a standard location for add on systems for Mac OS X users running darwinports, but then, that's not linux). this is only for executables that are supposed to be runnable from the shell; you may also find executables in other locations (/usr/lib, /usr/libexec, etc.) that aren't supposed to be directly invoked by users. richard
