seeking general guidelines for installing software on Linux

[Troy Engel]

ME wrote:
> 
> Binaries that are linked as static are usually eft in /sbin and /usr/sbin.

I don't mean to be a meanie, but 'sbin' is for SysAdmin binaries, aka
'root only' stuff; this is much different than static. :-)  It's
standard across all unices I'm aware of...

  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.7.html

-te

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