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bin Essential command binaries boot Static files of the boot loader dev Device files etc Host-specific system configuration lib Essential shared libraries and kernel modules media Mount point for removeable media mnt Mount point for mounting a filesystem temporarily opt Add-on application software packages sbin Essential system binaries srv Data for services provided by this system tmp Temporary files usr Secondary hierarchy var Variable data
Sometimes you'll want to compile software manually. This is how to do that:
wget the tarball to whereever, and extract it to
/usr/src:
tar -xzf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src
or
tar -xjf foo-1.2.3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src/foo-1.2.3
Check installation documentation:
less README
Check the configuration options with
./configure --help|less
and then
./configure --prefix=/usr/local [any other options]
make && make install