Eric Richards wrote:
I got the 8.1 professional version with two main books
but I don't seem to find in the books, just a few page I feel all that is needed on were to install programs, for example would you use /opt or /usr if you use /usr would you put it in /usr/lib or /usr/local or would you put it somewhere else,
Linux can be very frustrating to the beginner, I am making head way (I think) but still have a list of things I need to fix up.
it depends.........for most things that aren't daemons.../opt is fine for stuff that works with daemons, it could need to be installed in a distro specific directory. I've learned the suse and redhat nuances for the past few years.......I don't intend to change to any other distro for exactly this reason! It really sucks when you have to remember stuff for solaris, hpux, win2k, linux.......you get the idea! to be safe.......for the beginner...stick to RPM's from the vendor if possible...in this case suse. They have tons of apps....they should meet most new users curiousity. good luck, Oskar