Frank, This is obviously where the process of standardization becomes a bit murky.
Now 4.1 of the FHS(v3.0) wrt /usr states 4.1. Purpose /usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere. Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy. and 4.9.1 wrt /usr/local 4.9.1. Purpose The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr. On my computers I am by default the system administrator and I install programs like GnuCash on my system (in my case I build them but i do install other packages from the repositories of third party software made available by the a subset of the maintainers of my distro who package software for use on my system - far too slowly for my personal liking). If I look at what is in /usr it is packages like apt, blueman, cinnamon (desktop), cli, ufw, gufw and various installation, update, backup tools for the OS which are largely to do with inter-operation of my computer with other external computers and my LAN . I also have some packages like calibre, ebook, jupyter (some parts of) , R, scilab, sagemath which are packages I optionally install usually from my distributions software repository although that is not the case for R, scilab, sagemath. I would argue the latter should really be installed in /usr/local. It has been so long since I installed the GnuCash version from the LM software repository (2.6.19 and a flatpak version 3.7) , I no longer remember where it does install whether to /usr or /usr/local. Just did that and 2.6.19 installs to /usr (/usr/bin/gnucash, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash, /usr/include/gnucash, /usr/share/gnucash, /usr/share/man/man1/gnucash.1.gz) and I can run either 2.6.19 with /usr/bin/gnucash or my own localbuild of 3.7 with /usr/local/bin/gnucash separately without any obvious problems (I didn't open any files as I have been using V3.0-3.7 since they came out and i don't want to recreate the user config files but the program (2.6.19) went as far as the file open dialog). Interestingly after I remove it using the software manager /usr/include/gnucash and /usr/share/gnucash (same contents as /usr/local/share/gnucash) remain on my system (they weren't there before I installed form the repository) so the distribution packagers are not fully removing GnuCash from the system. /etc/gnucash is not removed by the software manager uninstall but it dates from my installation from my own build and not the installation from the software manager. Removing these two directories manually did not interfere with running my local build installed in /usr/local. I will report that as a LM bug My own local build installs to the following locations: /etc/gnucash /usr/local/bin/gnucash /usr/local/etc/gnucash /usr/local/lib/gnucash /usr/local/share/gnucash although whereis is not a reliable method of locating all files ( only binaries and source) installed on a system. locate does a better job but then too much information. I piped that to a file (11Mb) which I will check out to see if there is any other strange stuff lurking. The flathub version seems to install stuff to locations under /var as there were a lot of gnucash/flatpak related files there. I also tried installing from the flathub but that failed to install. It might require me to update the flathub installation but I am not going to pursue that. I am not particularly a fan. It seems to leave a lot of empty cache directories scattered around /var which can presumably be deleted without consequence. I will uninstall flathub as well as the flathub version of gnucash and see what is left. Just the gnucash related files found in mu ~/.local/share/Trash was an education. I should recover quite a bit of disk space justclearing that out. When LM goes through a major version upgrade I usually do a total fresh install including all user software to clear all the rubbish out. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
