What is the right folder to install .bin file

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:47:52PM -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
> As root, I downloaded the Audacity-1.2.xxxx.bz2 , and it is in  /root 
> and I untar it, and then ./audacity-1.2.xxxxx.bin, and the installation 

I'd suggest not doing that. If yum isn't working for you, my first
suggestion is to set up apt. But failing that, you don't need either to
install RPMs. Grab the Freshrpms audacity .i386.rpm file from
<http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=376>, and install that with

 rpm -Uvh audacity-1.2.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm

> goes on, created a subfolder /audacity-1.2.xxxxx under /root, I cd into 
> it and ./audacity and the program starts fine.
> I decide to install it out of /root so regular user can use it, /usr/bin 
> or /usr/local which one should be the right place?, do I have to chmod 

If you do decide to go the non-rpm route, you should put it under /usr/local
somewhere. Where exactly doesn't matter, but putting it the binary in
/usr/local/bin is probably the most convenient.

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