Android3000 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Apologies for this noob question but I am still new to Ubunto. If a piece of software is currently available as a binary archive only and the accompanying installation advises unzipping it to "a folder" and running the software from this place I presume this is not really advisable, as would be the same in the Windows world. In which case, should I install the software in, say, /usr/share and run it from there or is it okay to just unzip it and run it out of the /home/[username]/ directory? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 7 hours ago, Android3000 said: Apologies for this noob question but I am still new to Ubunto. If a piece of software is currently available as a binary archive only and the accompanying installation advises unzipping it to "a folder" and running the software from this place I presume this is not really advisable, as would be the same in the Windows world. In which case, should I install the software in, say, /usr/share and run it from there or is it okay to just unzip it and run it out of the /home/[username]/ directory? Thanks! /usr/local/bin should be the place for that and binary has to be the compiled for armhf/arm64 otherwise it will not start at all. If that is just a script, it should work out of the box ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android3000 Posted May 3, 2019 Author Share Posted May 3, 2019 Thanks Igor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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