"Michael T. Reiff" wrote:
I highly advise that you'd use this method too, since thus you also get around SuSE's plain stupidity (sorry folks, gotta say this) of putting packages like Samba, Apache a.s.o. (imagine, typical *NETWORKING* packages) in /usr/local .
Well, this is not the case [anymore]. On my 6.1 system, both Samba and Apache are installed in /usr/{bin,sbin,man,lib,doc} with some stuff in /var. Only the default ServerRoot and what belongs to it is installed in /usr/local. Historically, some of these packages used to reside in /usr/local though, for whatever reason I don't know. Whether stuff like Samba/Apache/KDE/... goes in /opt or /usr depends on what you regard as '/opt'ional to your system. Btw, did you notice that SuSE are providing update packages to their distributions regularly? Personally, I find it a lot easier to install a set of RPMs instead of configuring/compiling/installing all stuff myself. That way, I don't have to spend a lot of thought on which paths I need to configure, etc. Andreas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Gruenbacher, a.gruenbacher@infosys.tuwien.ac.at