[Sunhelp] /opt/sfw vs. /usr/local

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:26:16AM +1000, Clayton Winter wrote:
> Hi
> Have just installed Solaris 8 (fairly familiar with 2.6 and 7).
> The companion CD has the GNU software that installs to /opt/sfw/bin, is
> there a way to force it to /usr/local/bin?

Just do what I do.  After installing the OS and the 
companion CD software:

# ln -s /opt/sfw /usr/local

There ya go. 8-)

Or, before installing companion cd software, do the reverse:

# mkdir /usr/local
# ln -s /usr/local /opt/sfw

Then, everything will install in /usr/local.

Bill

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