i just make /opt a link to /usr/local ..works good. nate
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, John Gay wrote: John_G > John_G > John_G >I recently got a copy of StarOffice from the cover CD from PCPlus Magazine. It John_G >came as a .rpm file. I tried to use alien -i to install, but first I got loads John_G >of errors as the .deb file was made, then it started to install in /opt. It John_G >created this on my root partition, which is only 100M and about half full. Of John_G >course, this failed. I simply removed the /opt directory, as this was not on my John_G >system before I started. I am thinking of just putting another Harddrive in my John_G >system and setting it up as /opt. John_G > John_G >My question is, I've noticed that Debian often uses slightly different locations John_G >from RedHat. Does Debian put StarOffice in another directory, or does StarOffice John_G >expect to de in /opt, and should it stay there. I'm still new to Linux, and, John_G >although I've had a good read of FHS documents, it is not very specific. John_G >Shouldn't user programmes be installed in /usr? John_G > John_G >Does the new Sun version of StarOffice meet Debians policy to be included in John_G >contrib or non-free for distribution? I've got rather used to using dpkg to John_G >install, and I quite like knowing that all dependencies are verified and the John_G >menus are updated automatically. I still haven't tried apt yet. It didn't get John_G >installed on my system due to some problems I had with the 2.1 boot images and John_G >my SCSI motherboard. John_G > John_G >Thanx for all the help. John_G > John_G >Cheers, John_G > John_G > John Gay John_G > John_G > John_G > John_G >-- John_G >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null John_G > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 1:38pm up 77 days, 1:06, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.43, 0.37
