/usr/local question

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:16, Saiwing Yeung wrote:

> 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?

Any other place on the hard drive that doesn't already have a defined meaning. So any prefix other than /, /usr, /usr/local, /opt/local or /sw should be fine.