[ale] best place to untar/unzip a file?

[sdaemon at shaftnet.org (Matt Balaun)]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Chris Bergeron wrote:
> Where is the "proper" (for lack of a better word) place to untar or
> unzip an archive?  I've been downloading to /tmp and then ungziptaring
> them into subdirectories under /tmp/.  I configure, make, make install,
> and then just sit tight until the files that aren't being accessed get
> dumped from /tmp.  Is this the right way or should I put them under
> /usr/local?  

I doubt there is a canonic rule about this, but I usually dump things into 
/usr/local/src/.

-- 
Matt Balaun,
proud Slackware user since 1996


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