I'm setting up my Debian GNU/Linux system "the hard way". By that I mean that I'm adding just the packages that I need, one at a time using the "dpkg" tool. It's worked OK for basic stuff like "man" and the Xwindows packages. So far, I like the control this give me over what goes on my system. It's a bit time consuming but that's OK.
Now I'm ready to install my first non-package piece of software, TKnet. I've downloaded the tknet1_1.tgz file from the TKnet site onto a floppy and now I'm ready to install. Where is the "preferred" place to install TKnet? There's a directory called /usr/local/bin on my system. I believe I read somewhere that putting non-Debian-supplied software there helps in maintenance down the road one day. OTOH, I also vaguely remember reading that /usr/local is for software on my particular machine that isn't in a shared-mount directory such as /usr is in some workgroup environments. Bottom line. Where would be the most "standard" place to put that .tgz file and unpack it? And what reasons, if any, are there to even worry about where it goes? Maybe I'm just being paranoid (my understanding of Unix in general and Linux is particular is very lacking). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
