On 2/27/09, Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner@nasa.gov wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
(b) If I need to download the tar.gz file and install from that, it looks from their documentation that they install into /opt/MonitorSoftware Is it better to install into /usr/local or into /opt? What is the recommendation for a CentOS box, when installing non RPM software? Where best to install non RPM stuff? TIA!
I prefer /usr/local and that seems to be more common, but either should work. As for tarball installs - to be avoided if possible
Phil: Thank you. /usr/local if I need to install tarballs. Which I avoid, if possible!
- there's
always checkinstall.
Name : checkinstall Arch : i386 Version: 1.6.0 Release: 3.el5.rf Size : 82 k Repo : rpmforge Summary: CheckInstall installations tracker Description: CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.
Wow. Thank you! I will install Checkinstall, in a few minutes. We have fresh Colombian coffee in the kitchen. Colombian Beer is also very good. We are *big* fans of the Space Shuttle program. Lanny