Chris White wrote:
I am running Suse 9.1 and had down load a tar file (firefox installer) into my download directory. I then untared it in my home dir and things were fine till I decided to delete the install dir.
Did you not run the installer? That would have put FF in e.g. /opt/firefox or wherever you'd like to have it.
My question is where is the best place to store and untar files in Suse 9.1 or any Linux distribution for that matter so I don't screw up as bad again?
Any where you want. Much depends on what you're untar'ing and where you want it. Source files for instance I tend to untar into /usr/src/packages/SOURCE and them build them from there, but I could have chosen almost anywhere. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - sign up for your free 30-day trial now!