Good morning Mi Aug 14 09:09:02 2013 Thank You for help. > | > Well, your whole home directory should be backed up. > | > (Possibly excluding scratch areas like caches of temp files.) > | * > | Ok > | Should I also back up the whole home > | by changing for example from Xubuntu to Siduction? > > I don't understand this question. * What do I have to save when I want to decide: Stop using Xubuntu. I install a fresh Siduction (or SuSe or whatever) and I want to delete Xubuntu.
> > | What do I have to do > | a > | I create a directory and there I put all executable files. > | b > | I create a subfolder mybin in the dir bin like bin/mybin > | and put there my executable files. > > You could make this distinction if you like. > > A more normal pattern is that third party executables/packages go > in /usr/local or /opt depending on style, on the premise that you > are installing them for all users of the computer to access. * Premise is: Root means admin does install. All users can use it. > > If you are installing a third party exeutable/package only for > yourself (for example, experimental or insufficiently tested software > for some special purpose) you would install it in a directory inside > your own home directory (such as the "bin" you propose). * Ok > > If you are doing that, it would be sensible to do as you suggested > and have a "bin" for third party stuff and a "mybin" for your own > stuff. Just mention both of them in your $PATH in whichever order suits > your own policy. * This is my question: Should I declare bin/mybin files in $path or does Linux find the executable file because mybin is a subdirectory of bin? > > My personal habit on machine I alone administer is to install third > party packages in /opt, for example: /opt/mutt-1.5.21 for version > 1.5.21 of mutt. * OK Inside that directory there will be a "bin" with the "mutt" > executable and an assortment of other directories with manual entries, etc. * PK Thank You. > Then to present access to it to all users I would go to /usr/local/bin > (the "global" third party "bin" directory where people expect to find > "extra" software) > and go: > > ln -s /opt/mutt-1.5.21/bin/mutt mutt-1.5.21 > ln -s /opt/mutt-1.5.21/bin/mutt mutt * Ok > > This makes two names: "mutt" as the default version of mutt that > people get when they just type "mutt", and "mutt-1.5.21" as a name > people can type to run that specific version of mutt. * Ok. Very good example. Thank You. > > Later, one can install mutt version 1.5.22 in a similar fashion in > /opt/mutt-1.5.22 > and make just the "mutt-1.5.22" name in /usr/local/bin (the first "ln > -s" above). > If you then decide that 1.5.22 is good (and better), then change the > "default" mutt > to it: > > cd /usr/local/bin > rm mutt > ln -s /opt/mutt-1.5.22/bin/mutt mutt * Ok > > This gives you flexibility to install multiple versions of software > and to pick and choose between them later. * Ok > > It presumes that "/usr/local/bin" is in the $PATH, of course. > > | I think it is possibel to > | make a shell file: > | ffx does start firefox > | as shortcut. > > Certainly. * OK Thank You Sophie ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
