Re: [Visualpython-users] Linux installation

[Guy K. K. <guy...@au...>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:18:22 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> The appearance of "/usr/local" here is due to having specified
> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.6 and --prefix=/usr/local in the configure
> step for building Visual. On Ubuntu there exist
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and also
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages,

Commonly user contributed installs should only go to e. g. /usr/local or /opt. 
Only distribution packages (including those from third parties) should install 
straight into the default file system hierarchy.

> and it is the latter folder where 3rd-party modules like Visual are
> apparently supposed to be installed.

Indeed. If I download the sources, compile and install, it should usually go 
into the /usr/local hierarchy. If there's something like a "make deb" or "make 
rpm" then that install can also go into the default system level hierarchy, as 
they're managed packages that can be properly maintained through the system 
provided packaging tools.

HTH,

Guy


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