[osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps
Hello People, I've googled a lot and I'm confused, because I still don't know what the best place for installation of add-on apps under OpenSolaris is. For example, I want to compile and install some free software/open source like OpenVPN or memtest86+. What prefix should I type for configure script? /usr/local? /opt/local? /opt/sfw? /opt/appname? What do you recommend me? Is it something like OpenSolaris way? My best regards, Pawel Tecza ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps
Paweł Tęcza wrote: Hello People, I've googled a lot and I'm confused, because I still don't know what the best place for installation of add-on apps under OpenSolaris is. For example, I want to compile and install some free software/open source like OpenVPN or memtest86+. What prefix should I type for configure script? /usr/local? /opt/local? /opt/sfw? /opt/appname? What do you recommend me? Is it something like OpenSolaris way? My best regards, From man filesystem: /usr/local Not part of the SVR4-based Solaris distribution. The /usr directory is exclusively for software bundled with the Solaris operating system. If needed for storing machine-local add-on software, create the directory /opt/local and make /usr/local a symbolic link to /opt/local. The /opt directory or filesystem is for storing add-on software to the system. If this is unpackaged software, that's where I'd put it. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps
Shawn Walker pisze: Paweł Tęcza wrote: Hello People, I've googled a lot and I'm confused, because I still don't know what the best place for installation of add-on apps under OpenSolaris is. For example, I want to compile and install some free software/open source like OpenVPN or memtest86+. What prefix should I type for configure script? /usr/local? /opt/local? /opt/sfw? /opt/appname? What do you recommend me? Is it something like OpenSolaris way? My best regards, From man filesystem: /usr/local Not part of the SVR4-based Solaris distribution. The /usr directory is exclusively for software bundled with the Solaris operating system. If needed for storing machine-local add-on software, create the directory /opt/local and make /usr/local a symbolic link to /opt/local. The /opt directory or filesystem is for storing add-on software to the system. If this is unpackaged software, that's where I'd put it. Hi Shawn, Thanks a lot for your reply! Do the rest of you agree that /opt/local is the best location for that kind of software? ;) Have a nice day, P. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:49 PM, John Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend the tip. If that wouldn't work for you, then please explain what further criteria you might have that I can't guess. :-) Thanks. I just wanted to be sure that tip had the fix (or unbreak) and I didn't need to go back to before the bug was introduced. It looks like there will not be time for a respin, so we will be moving on to build 103. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps
Paweł Tęcza wrote: Shawn Walker pisze: Paweł Tęcza wrote: Hello People, I've googled a lot and I'm confused, because I still don't know what the best place for installation of add-on apps under OpenSolaris is. For example, I want to compile and install some free software/open source like OpenVPN or memtest86+. What prefix should I type for configure script? /usr/local? /opt/local? /opt/sfw? /opt/appname? What do you recommend me? Is it something like OpenSolaris way? My best regards, From man filesystem: /usr/local Not part of the SVR4-based Solaris distribution. The /usr directory is exclusively for software bundled with the Solaris operating system. If needed for storing machine-local add-on software, create the directory /opt/local and make /usr/local a symbolic link to /opt/local. The /opt directory or filesystem is for storing add-on software to the system. If this is unpackaged software, that's where I'd put it. Hi Shawn, Thanks a lot for your reply! Do the rest of you agree that /opt/local is the best location for that kind of software? ;) Yes, if it isn't packaged. If it's packaged, I'd build it to install into /usr. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Best place for installation of add-on apps
Dnia 2008-11-17, pon o godzinie 13:08 -0500, Mike Meyer pisze: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:05:35 +0100 Paweł Tęcza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for your reply! Do the rest of you agree that /opt/local is the best location for that kind of software? ;) Yes, but create the symlink for /usr/local before you start installing things. A lot of open source software stayed with /usr/local, and may not move easily, so I wouldn't bother trying. Hello Mike, Thank you very much for the hint! Fortunately I've installed only one add-on app. It's OpenVPN and I've put it into /opt/openvpn-2.0.9, because someone recommended me that location :) BTW, did you know that both openvpn and memtest86+ are in the netbsd pkgsrc system, which works on both Solaris and OpenSolaris? It comes with a robust, flexible build system and hence has generated one of the more impressive lists of available applications. Thanks for the info! It's good to know it. I dream about official OpenSolaris IPS repo with all software I need to use. Just like Debian/Ubuntu repos :D I installed OpenVPN from IPS Blastwave repo, but I have a problem with running TAP driver, probably because of Solaris patch (more details you can find in archives of networking-discuss [1] and laptop-discuss mailing lists). So I'm trying now with vanilla OpenVPN sources. I know that SchilliX Live CD has memtest86 utility (I'm not sure whether it's memtest86 or memtest86+), but I don't want to download huge .iso file for only one tool. My best regards, P. [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=76963tstart=0 [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=82582tstart=0 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
