Installing synce from tarballs: where to install?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 22 14:02:39 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 10:32 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 22/02/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I intend to install Synce on FC6 to sync my Dell Axim x50v with
> > > Kontact. I'm installing via tarballs as the rpms are two years out of
> > > date. To where should I install the tarballs? Opt? Etc? Anywhere else?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > I normally use the /usr/local tree.
> >
> 
> /usr/local already has stuff in it, and I'd like to keep the
> tarball-installed stuff separate from the yum-installed stuff.
> Actually, I was thinking about using /opt. My main concern is
> dependancies: if a yum installed package needs package foo-1.0 and I
> install a tarball that wants foo-0.9 then I want to be able to install
> foo-0.9 in /opt with the tarballed stuff.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
Well both /opt and /usr/local could both we argued to be the place to do
this. In one sense /opt is for optional added packages so it should be
ok but be sure you change the default PATH variable to include the
appropriate /opt bin directories.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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