- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
I don’t like the mess some software makes when it install in my system so I want to move it to a more appropriate place.
My questions are:
1- Where is the most appropriated directory for this? (some hidden folder made with this purpose, I thought linux had something like this as a standard)
2- How I move it without breaking anything?
RE Go: Others have already mentioned the right way, thought I’d personally prefer
~/opt/go
over what was suggested.RE Perl: To instruct Perl to install to another directory, for example to
~/opt/perl5
, put the following lines somewhere in your bash init files.export PERL5LIB="$HOME/opt/perl5/lib/perl5${PERL5LIB:+:${PERL5LIB}}" export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="$HOME/opt/perl5${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT:+:${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}}" export PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"$HOME/opt/perl5\"" export PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=$HOME/opt/perl5" export PATH="$HOME/opt/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"
Though you need to re-install the Perl packages you had previously installed.
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
I didn’t like the capitalised names so configured xdg to use all lowercase letters. That’s why
~/opt
fits in pretty nicely.You’ve got a point re
~/.local/opt
but I personally like the idea of having the important bits right in my home dir. Here’s my layout (which I’m quite used to now after all these years):$ ls ~ bin desktop doc downloads mnt music opt pictures public src templates tmp videos workspace
where
bin
is just a bunch of symlinks to frequently used apps fromopt
src
is where i keep clones of repos (but I don’t do work insrc
)workspace
is a where I do my work on git worktrees (based offsrc
)