Timeline for How do I know where to put things in linux?
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 3:28 | comment | added | cchamberlain | not all linux distros were made equally. Same goes with package managers. I can say that pacman keeps me pretty happy on arch. If you are use Windows and want to get more familiar with linux style, you can get msys2.github.io and you will have a very nice pacman port that is under active development. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 0:18 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
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| Feb 24, 2011 at 10:49 | vote | accept | Marcus Johansson | ||
| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:35 | answer | added | mgalgs | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 20:51 | answer | added | Bill K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 15:03 | answer | added | sk29910 | timeline score: 27 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:59 | comment | added | Justin Ethier |
Right, usually software comes either as part of a pre-built package (RPM, deb, etc) or it includes a Makefile that allows you to run make install to install it in the appropriate place on your Linux system.
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| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:50 | comment | added | jsbillings | Once you get enough experience with building/installing software, you can just create your own packages. Please be sure to provide feedback to the upstream provider! | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/40416410698121216 | ||
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:15 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:10 | answer | added | Martin Scharrer | timeline score: 34 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:05 | comment | added | Šimon Tóth | @Rup Plus if a software doesn't have a deb package you probably shouldn't install it, since it's either something deprecated, or bleeding edge, or incompatible with apt-based distributions. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:59 | comment | added | Rup | If it's not from APT then it probably isn't something you can just install - you'll need to compile and install it yourself. And then it'll start getting confused with APT-based packages. It's simplest to just find APT / .debs for whatever you need as far as you can. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:58 | comment | added | Šimon Tóth | Offtopic. But the simple trick is to never install anything outside of the package management system. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:57 | comment | added | skaffman | See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:55 | history | asked | Marcus Johansson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |