/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages./opt must locate its static files in a separate /opt/<package> or /opt/<provider> directory tree, where <package> is a name that describes the software package and <provider> is the provider's LANANA registered name."/usr/lib includes object files and libraries. On some systems, it may also include internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts. /usr/lib. If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by the application must be placed within that subdirectory."As for partitioning your drive, I don't do separate partitions for /etc /opt /home. It has been decades since I even heard of anyone recommending doing that.
-LTH
Okay, so new thread!
As I was repartitioning my hard drive, I was trying to find out the lowdown on
this /opt folder. This is a new thing since I have started running Trinity; I
never noticed it before when running Kubuntu. Only after I started running
the Trinity desktop, that is when I noticed the installation to /opt; and
only then I noticed that other programs were installing in that folder.
A friend told me that he creates separate partitions for both /opt and /etc;
and then, too, I noticed that the new Icecat browser does something even
weirder, which is to install in /usr/lib/icecat, rather than (like other
Mozilla browsers) in /home/<USER>/.mozilla/.
My question is really more or less the same for all these items. I want to be
able, once I have configured them as I wish, just to clone that directory, so
that I don't have to keep reinventing the wheel, over and over again.
When I tried to research the /opt folder, I didn't find out much. If I create
a separate partition, will I be able to leave it untouched like my home
folder? Will Trinity (and other programs) automatically be installed there?
I suppose could just back it up regularly, then overwrite it once I have
reinstalled, but I would like to treat it like my /home/<USER>/ folder, and
leave it intact.
The same with Icecat: it seems to run better than Firefox/Iceweasel, but to
install everything in /usr/lib/icecat seems very irregular. Is there some way
to get it to install elsewhere? for example, in /opt?
Bill
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