how to select the location of a linux application while installing it?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at
00:10
Is there any facility through which we can select the target drive for the application? like in windows we select where we want the application to be installed.
Tagged with: target drive
Filed under: Linux Applications
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Linux doesn’t work that way. It has no separate drives (C:, D:) like in Windows – everything goes under one root directory, which has additional directories under it. All your personal files go under your home directory (/home/username), configuration files usually go under /etc, and so on.
You can install some programs that you download yourself into your home directory, but the preferred method in most modern desktop Linux releases is to use the package manager program to access software repositories and let it do it’s stuff. You don’t actually need to know where the programs are installed – the package manager does the housekeeping for you.