Android3000 Posted May 2, 2019 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!
Igor Posted May 3, 2019 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 ...
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