On 3/27/2014 12:02 PM, Toralf Lund wrote:
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I've been trying to wrap my head around the basic design of Linux -
thinks like sudo and chmod were totally alien to me. Ditto with the
different command prompts based on the status of user permissions.
Makes sense one you unravel it but it is not intuitive, to me at
least. Starting to get an understanding of it.... The only program I
actually installed myself - VueScan - is sitting in the downloads
folder. So even things like figuring out where to install programs is
a mystery (I assume they should go somewhere in the usr folder...)
Actually, for this kind of thing, the recommended location these days
is /opt, or a sub-directory of /opt named after the software vendor.
Most of the time you shouldn't think about this, though, but instead
use software packages that have built-in target locations. You
probably want to find out more about about APT and "software
repositories" (a.k.a. "repos").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool might be a good
starting point...
- Toralf
Thanks - I will check that out.
Mark
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