Installing binaries

[Arthur Pemberton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>I have been loking at Nedit and want to install it- but it is
>available only as a binary. After googleing around a bit, I found that
>in most distros binaries should be installed in /usr/local/bin, but in
>redhat based distros this is different. So how/where should I install
>this?
>
>Also, whenever I download any program, I install it by moving it into
>/usr/local/bin and running it from there. That's rpm's, perl programs,
>and anything else. Is this wrong (or right)?
>
>Dotan Cohen
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As root run:

# yum install nedit