Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:15:37 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Phil Thomson <philthom@freeshell.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither binaries? Message-ID: <40C37B69.1070301@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0406062005360.1562@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0406062005360.1562@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Hey Phil, Phil Thomson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a relative *NIX newby running FreeBSD on an somewhat older (750 MHz) > machine. I've been installing programs, and they seem to install in my > home directory by default, but I have my partition table set up so I > don't have much room there. My questions are: 1) is there a better place > to install programs (like /usr/bin for example?) and 2) is there an > established procedure for installing programs in that location by > default? Sorry if the wording of my questions in unclear; let me know if > you have any questions. If you install programs manually you have mostly a option in the ./configure script that enables you to select a prefix. Mostly that prefix will be /usr/local/, there all non default applications will be installed. (./configure --prefix=/usr/local) Also, perhaps it's better to use the ports on a FreeBSD system, you can upgrade them easy with "portupgrade" and they all get installed in the /usr/local directories. HTH, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene
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