Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:35:58PM -0700, Troy Truchon wrote: >> Hmm, I just figured Ubuntu did something funny with it, much like >> disabling root and other Ubuntu trivia. I've never had anything not work >> so I'm assuming that nothing on my system installs to /usr/local/bin, >> which is weird. What is in that directory on your system? > > on my notebook it contains something i put there myself. on most other > machines it is empty. along with /usr/local/lib, and some others. > the point is to provide a guideline for where to put stuff.
Often it is used for binaries that you install manually i.e. when you perform the './configure; make; make install' yourself rather than installing through whichever package manager your system favours (occasionally /opt/bin is used for that purpose too). -- http://members.dodo.com.au/~netocrat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
