seeking general guidelines for installing software on Linux

[Troy Engel]

ME wrote:
> 
> Yep, but I still place the few staticly lnked binaries I use in the /sbin
> dirs. Frequently "System/Sysadmin Binaries" are the applications that you
> want to have work when your libraries get hosed, or you need to do
> maintenance on your partitions that won't mount. This is why they are

Agreed 100% -- nothing like trying to use /bin/cp or /bin/ls when /lib
is offline. :-)

> Use of /sbin dirs for housing those few applications that you would want
> to be static was suggested by that slackware distro that inckuded the
> 1.2.13 linux kernel. If the s is for system or sysadmin or superuser and

Hmmm, interesting -- I have never used slack, but I'm sure that's how
they had it designed; for the same reason a lot of binaries used to be
in /etc.  I kind of think we are drawing toward a more and more common
standard over time, it's becoming less cumbersome to go from one unix to
the next...

-te

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