[ale] /USR vs. /USR/LOCAL

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Thu May 29 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> *What is the difference between /usr and /usr/local?
> *
> I'm very excited that my wife has finally joined the linux community
> (through openSUSE 10.3). ?Now that I have to hold her hand for almost
> everything she does with the system, she asks lots of questions and /usr
> vs. /usr/local totally stumps me. ?I thought I knew, but trying to explain
> it to her helped me realize that I don't know the difference. ?Thanks.

well, I can tell you that I just found out a few differences, and Debian-users 
helped me out..
I was trying to figure out why gnupg wouldn't install from Debian, and why it 
wouldn't work with kmail. Kmail kept saying the /usr/bin/gnupg wasn't 
installed right. well, I had done a source install, and it installed 
to /usr/local/bin :)

so I can tell you at least that some source packages ( on Debian..) install 
to /usr/local, when the Debian packages install to /usr/bin .


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