/usr/local question

Saiwing Yeung saiwing at berkeley.edu
Wed Apr 4 09:16:25 PDT 2012


oh... I didn't know that. I just took a look in my /usr/local, and found a whole bunch of stuff for texlive, and then various programs that I remember installing.

is there a recommended place for me to put these programs?


On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:12 AM, Chris Jones wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> I don't install things there, but there are things in there (mostly from Mac OS) that I'd like to keep and use.
> 
> I might be wrong but I understand OS X itself does not put anything in /usr/local. Anything you might have there has probably come from other third party applications you have installed, not the system itsdelf.
> 
> Chris



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