Re: Directory structure (was: Why are you on a *nix desktop?) -- LINUXDESKTOP4I

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2009/11/11 David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dennis Lovelady wrote:

Good thinking, Scott! But I wonder what you do about other directories
(especially /etc) that are pretty much system-wide directories, but may have
stuff necessary for your /usr (or /opt) stuff?

I've never understood the '/opt' directory ... the three distros I've
worked with so far (Fedora/Redhat, Slackware {not in a while}, and
Ubunut) don't use it directly.

It's only used by some 3rd party packages that have their own installer.

Personally, I would prefer that kind of stuff get installed in
/usr/local instead of /opt.

On my system the only thing installed in /opt is IBM software - Lotus
Notes & iSeries Access ODBC drivers. Installing Notes (8.5) was a good
deal easier than Client Access. There is a fairly straightforward
howto in the Ubuntu wiki on getting Notes (provided as 32bit Ubuntu
debs) onto x64 systems. No such luck with CA 5250 which is rpm only,
and so far I've not been able to get it working on my system (x64
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS).

Regards, Martin

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