On 2018-01-24 16:59, Andrew McRobb wrote:
Is there a specific subfolder I should be installing compiled
programs
to? IE /opt instead of /usr/bin ?
Things that are compiled from source are usually put in /usr/local ,
because your distro's package manager will leave that directory and its
subdirectories alone. /opt is usually for binary packages like Android
Studio or Orrible.
Is there a way to specify the subfolder?
If you mean by downloading it, most cases only where you put the
source code. Unless you mean the installation part, most of the time
no
What? Everything that's built with autotools (which is almost every
project that's larger than a toy) has the --prefix= option. This
defaults to /usr/local/ but you can set it to anything you like. You'd
set it to /usr/ to install the stuff alongside all the system packages.
Well-behaved packages put their binaries in $PREFIX/bin , libraries in
$PREFIX/lib , documentation in $PREFIX/share/doc , etcetera.
But even then if you are hell bent on where your program
lives, you can use symlinks.
If your program depends on libraries, and those libraries are installed
in a non-standard place, you may need to add that place to
/etc/ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig before the program will run.
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