On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:36:35PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > > > /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to > > one > > machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian > > distribution > > What about /opt?
/opt and /usr/local are roughly equivalent.
/usr/local is where locally maintained data are stored (/usr/local and
/home are by and large *not* affected by the Debian policy, though
certain directories may be created by an installer.
/opt is for "optional" packages. Where a small additional utility might
go under /usr/local/[s]bin, a complex package like Oracle, DB2, or SAS
has its own major directory structure. These *should* install under
/opt (DB2 and Oracle, AFAIK, don't respect this and go where the hell
they feel like going -- though DB2 *does* use RPMs under RedHat as an
install method).
As a practical matter, and to simplify space management, it's often
simpler to throw everything together in one lot. I create /opt as a
symlink to /usr/local:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 29 11:21 /opt -> /usr/local
$ ls /usr/local
Download WP8 bochs lib man share tmp
SOffice51 admin doc local netscape src wine
VMWare bin include lost+found sbin stow
...note that /usr/local has both standard (bin, doc, include, lib, man,
sbin, tmp), and additional (VMWare, WP8, SOffice51) subdirectories.
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