[Serusers] is it /usr/local/ or /usr?

Jan Janak jan at iptel.org
Thu Apr 22 01:06:55 CEST 2004


This is a common practise, when you install program from sources by
yourself then /usr/local prefix is used. That way you can remove it
easily and it does not conflict with files provided by binary packages.

  Jan.

On 21-04 14:45, Richard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> CVS compile seems to use /usr/local/, eg.
> /usr/local/lib/module, /usr/local/sbin and etc. 0.8.12
> RPM installs uses /usr, eg. /usr/lib/modules,
> /usr/sbin/.
> 
> Why is it different? Is there a standard directory?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 
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