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Huugin

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Registered: 2013-03-09

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[SOLVED]Installing AUR builds to /opt

I was wondering, is there any drawback to installing AUR packages in /opt ?  I was reading the AUR wiki, and it hinted at installing AUR builds in ~/builds , but I have already installed some packages in /opt, which I thought seemed reasonable since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem … y_Standard , defines /opt as the directory for "optional application software packages".

I was thinking that maybe it would be problematic since /opt is afterall a folder owned by root, although all my AUR builds in /opt are in a subfolder folder /opt/AUR owned by me so that I don't need sudo.

Last edited by Huugin (2015-06-08 12:10:17)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED]Installing AUR builds to /opt

No, it does not tell you to install packages to ~/build, it suggests *building* them there.

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Huugin

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Re: [SOLVED]Installing AUR builds to /opt

Oh ok, can I then delete the build packages after installation?

rikn00

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Re: [SOLVED]Installing AUR builds to /opt

Yes. You may want to backup *.pkg.tar.xz if you want to reuse that package later.