On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:50:32PM +0000, Gerard Cunningham wrote: > Remember what I said about fool proof? Can you > clarify for me, where do I create that directory? > Is it: > 1. /scribus-1.3.9 > 2. /home/scribus-1.3.9 > 3. /home/username/scribus-1.3.9 > 4. /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9 > > Maybe I was over thinking it , but lacking > further clarity, I went with option 1.
I recommend creating directories /home/username/Download /home/username/src /home/username/bin Fetch tarball, zip file, etc. into the first; extract contents to the second, where you compile; and install into the third. Make sure your PATH environment variable includes an entry for the latter. This is generally done with entries such as PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH in your shell start-up scripts such as .bash_profile. If you're interested in maintaining multiple versions of some program, rename the bare executable to a name with its version , e.g., "scribus" to "scribus-1.3.8", before installing the latest with the bare name. -- Randolph Bentson bentson at holmsjoen.com
