[Linux-disciples] Preferred install location

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On 1/11/2011 3:26 PM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Jamie Forrest wrote:
>
>> I am installing a set of command line tools from Google on my Ubuntu 
>> 10.10 box. http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/depottools
>>
>> The installation instructions say to just add the path to the untar'd 
>> folder to my path, but I want to copy it out of my home directory and 
>> put it somewhere more logical. What's the preferred install location 
>> for things like this?
>
> - system-wide stuff goes in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, and /sbin. This 
> is typically where apps managed by the distribution (Ubu, in this 
> case) go.
> - stuff the superuser compiles goes into /usr/local/{bin,sbin}
> - stuff you run on your own goes into ${HOME}/bin. You should then put 
> $HOME/bin in your $PATH.
>
> hier(7) covers all of this. But it sounds like maybe you want 
> /usr/local/bin here.
>
Seems to me ~/bin and /usr/local/bin are both acceptable locations, 
especially if this is really just a desktop box. It is more secure to 
install it in /usr/local/bin as sudo, rather than in ~/bin as user, 
because the latter could be compromised by an errant process with user 
(but not su) rights.
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