-=> andrew clarke wrote to Ben Ritchey <=-

 ac> 24 May 16 14:49, you wrote to me:

 ac>>> BINDIR="/usr/local/bin"
 ac>> On Linux you'll probably need to change this to /usr/bin.

 BR> I have /usr/local/bin but it's empty ?

 ac> Evidently something created that directory on your Linux system, but
 ac> it's not used by anything.

On a normal Linux distribution, /usr/local/bin is created, but reserved for
stuff that you've compiled from source.  Packages with user binaries get
installed into /usr/bin instead.  So my /usr/local/bin directory tends to get a
mixture of shell scripts that I wrote and binaries from sooftware for which
there was no suitable .deb available.

 ac> In FreeBSD, /usr/local/bin is where most binaries are installed by the
 ac> FreeBSD package manager (pkg), versus /usr/bin, where some of the base
 ac> system binaries are installed.

Different in Linux base system binaries end up in /bin, binaries from packages
in /usr/sbin and non package binaries (i.e. compiled from source without a
package) in /usr/local/bin .

 ac> (In FreeBSD 10.x and earlier the base system is effectively installed
 ac> from tarballs, but I understand they're moving to using pkg for the
 ac> base system in FreeBSD 11.x and later.)

I haven't touched any of the *BSD OSs for many years. :)


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