16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
9:04 p.m.
On Wednesday 16 September 2020 13:22:43 greg via tde-users wrote:
/usr/lib/ is where firefox gets installed. I installed there, because I used
firefox as my model. However, since I already know that it can be installed
in, and run from, the home folder (though it's not a good idea), then I don't
see a problem with using /opt/custom/ as the location for the icecat folder.
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On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:36 PM, William Morder via tde-users
<ml-migration-agent(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
On Wednesday
16 September 2020 12:22:05 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
what I know today.
"opt" is used by third party applications. my "opt' contains:
J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
I was thinking of doing this myself, but I obviously am not really a tech
person, compared to most of the other folks on this mailing list.
Funny thing, though, people out in the "real world" (you know the place)
often eem to imagine that I am a blackhat cracker who can bring down the
government with a few command-line tricks. (I have no such illusions.)
Once I get the steps for installation from source packages in order, I
wanted to create deb packages, at least for myself. It would be nice to
get them hosted somewhere, as I dislike having to use source packages --
although I know some geeky friends who swear by this method over using
deb, rpm, yum or other packages.
So, if I follow what you say, installing to /opt/custom/ instead
of /usr/lib/ ?
Bill
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ktop.org Correct. But for some reason I can't
imagine, I linked the wrong
thing.
:-)
I missed this thread, but why don't you build a simple debian package?
If it were to be installed in custom directory, I found out that a kind
of isolation is the best approach.
I use /opt/custom and compile/install in /opt/custom/<application>
Then I add to the global or users PATH /opt/custom/<application>/bin
I also found out that creating /opt/custom/<application> and chown to a
users and compiling/installing with that user prevents from broken
installers. The method never failed, although in recent years I have
reduced the applications there to absolute minimum in favor to debian
packages. master-pdf-editor-5/, openoffice4/ , trinity/. .
I'm wondering where you got openoffice4, as I've searched high and low for
it;
source packages only, but I suppose I could deal with it once more.
"/usr/local" is used by me to manage my
system. there is
a "usr/local/src". "usr/local/bin", "/usr/local/bin" is
already in PATH
Thanks for your comments.
Bill