On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote:
> I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local > direc > tory. I am new to Debian (not to LInux), have a 1.3 installed and my > /usr/local > is completly empty. I believe that dpkg installs everything in /usr/lib. Is > ther > e a way, using dpkg, to install certain packages in /usr/local ? /usr/local is for programs you have compiled and/or installed yourself and that are not registered with the debian packaging system. If the programs are used by only one user, you could also install them in that user's $HOME. If you want to know all about the reasons and philosophy behind the organization of the filesystem(s), just go ahead and read the: - debian policy manual; - debian programmers manual; - filesystem standard; You can find these sort of documents in the debian-doc package. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
