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Stefano Marinelli
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

When you try to install a software on FreeBSD, using the official "install.sh" way but it tries to write binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin

Toy Story meme: Linuxisms, Linuxisms everywhere
Toy Story meme: Linuxisms, Linuxisms everywhere
Toy Story meme: Linuxisms, Linuxisms everywhere
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Xenotar
Xenotar
@xenotar@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano Exactly

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Pete Orrall
Pete Orrall
@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano What kills me is the lack of standardization of filesystem hierarchy across OSes.

Why?

I'm sure there are historical design reasons for it, but even moving between Linux distros can feel like moving to a different OS entirely.

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Lasagne
Lasagne
@lasagne@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin

That is not correct in Linux either

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King_DuckZ
King_DuckZ
@duckz@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano that sounds bizarre... If it's an install.sh and not a package manager script then it should be placing stuff into /usr/local/bin on Linux too as /usr/bin is for stuff managed by a distro's package manager. It's probably an overall poorly written script

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ax6761
ax6761
@ax6761@freeradical.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano Is there no variable|option to supply installation root?

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Stefano Marinelli
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@ax6761 I haven't checked, but I supposed it was already considered as FreeBSD is marked as supported.

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ax6761
ax6761
@ax6761@freeradical.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefano Ahh, yup; agree with your supposition in that case.

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