At 06:35 AM 10/27/00, you wrote:
...(snip,snip)...
>The developers don't seem to be reading these books either which is
>probably what drives the distros to try to solve the problems. One would
>expect, in a pure Unix interpretation, for Acrobat reader to be installed
>in /usr/local/bin. The reason is that acroread would then be on the
>default path set up in all Linuxes. But Adobe doesn't see it that way and
>instead sticks it in /usr/local/bin/Acroread4.0 (at least the rpm I had
>did this).
>.....(snip,snip)...
>Cheers --- Larry
In the Nov 2000 on page 38 is an article titled: "Where to Install My
Products on Linux?".
According to the FHS ver1 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) you would expect
to find acroread in /opt/Acroread4.0/bin (with symlink maybe to /opt/bin
where /opt/bin is added to PATH), it's man page in /opt/Acroread4.0/man1
(with symlink maybe to /opt/man/man1 with /opt/man/man1 added to MANPATH),
and any host specific config files in /etc/opt/Acroread4.0 (these could
just be symlinks).
That article is actually very useful for developers and sysadmins as it
leads you through a sample install of "whizbang-1.2.3.i386.rpm" a fictional
package and even discusses the .spec file needs.
But you are correct...very few developers or distro vendors pay more than
lip service to the FHS and wonder why packages step all over each
other...(sigh).
Regards --- Mike
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