A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules
/usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian distribution I hope this gives some small explianation... Johnny. Vitux wrote: > w trillich wrote: > > > > my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, > > and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with > > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches > > of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > > > > what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > > /lib > > /usr/lib > > /usr/local/lib > > /var/lib > > > > /usr/doc > > /usr/share/doc > > > > /bin > > /usr/bin > > /usr/local/bin > > /sbin > > /usr/sbin > > /usr/local/sbin > > > > this topic is covered briefly in one-o-them HOWTOs, which i can't > > find right off hand... (dhelp search for directories? paths? > > structure? besides, having just reinstalled everything, dsearch > > isn't finding squat anyway...) > > > > some of these are more obvious to me than others; i bet a couple > > of you newer debian-user subscribers (like me) are interested in > > this, too.
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