Simon Green wrote:
2009/1/6 Glenn Stuart Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz>:
Hi there all,
sorry for the dumb newbie question:
That's okay. We were all at that point some time too :-)
Something that WLUG has been recommending to people for quite a while is the RUTE User's Tutorial and Exposition, available at http://linux.2038bug.com/rute-home.html amongst other places. It's quite a hefty document - don't bother printing it all out unless you're really keen - and it covers off a heap of basic stuff like this. Well worth reading. As a general point to the original poster: you probably should have made that directory under /user/local/, rather than straight under /usr/. /usr/local is nominated as a suitable directory path for installing locally managed software, as distinct to anything managed by the distribution. It's 99% cosmetic, so don't worry too much, but it's just a nice way of keeping extra packages you've installed above and beyond what your distro offer in a single location. One benefit is apparent if you want to back up and reinstall your machine, for example, then you can be confident that anything "extra" you did is in that directory, so you minimise the risk of losing or forgetting something. If you're interested more in the filesystem layout, look for the Linux Fileysystem Hierarchy Standard at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/