Installing binaries

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/23/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >http://LyricsList.com/
> >http://Music-Liriks.com/
> >
> >
> >
> As root run:
> 
> # yum install nedit
> 


I didn't realize that it was in extras. Thanks.


Dotan Cohen
http://English-Lyrics.com/
http://Liriks-Song.com/