Re: [SLUG] Where to put all the gear

["David Kempe" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I still don't know what you mean when you say "when I run the RPM it
> sets it up in /usr/share".  First of all, RPMs are not executable files:
> Therefore, you literally cannot "run" them.  Second, if you mean
> _installing_ that RPM, using package tools, causes some parts of the
> package to land in subdirectories under /usr/share, I can well believe
> that.  For example, manpages would probably end up somewhere under
> /usr/share/man, and documentation under /usr/share/doc.  However, I
> would also expect most of the package's contents to end up being
> installed elsewhere entirely, such as /usr/bin, and so on.

Perhaps he  means the source RPM. In which case i think stuff does get put
under /usr/share

Nick, I would suggest you look at a utility called stow if you are compiling
a lot of things from source.
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html

it might be useful to sort out the confusiong of where all that stuff is :)

Dave.