Installing an application outside of portage

389292 · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2019 Posts: 504

I want to compile and install a simple C application which doesn't require 3rd party libraries, where should I put the binary for it to be system-wide and not conflict with portage (in case it has the same name application in the tree)? Is /opt/bin a good choice? Is there a Linux-wide FHS convention?

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3879

/usr/local/bin
maybe?
It doesnt matter where you put it provided that u update the PATH variable to include the location.Is it a single binary only?
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:51 pm Post subject:

See https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html, /usr/local seems correct location
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389292 · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2019 Posts: 504