OK - installing bash on Mac OS was a breeze because I downloaded a 
tar-binary that was a breeze and did something that I never saw 
before...

from the / level prompt...

   tar zxvf /path_to_file/bash-2.0.5-osx.tgz

expanded to 3 trees and automatically put the contents of the  /etc - 
/bin  - /usr trees in their couterparts. This was really as simple as 
rpm (but of course relying on the person that created the binary to 
check any needed dependencies, share-objects or libraries. Wow, rpm 
isn't any easier than that was.

Does linux do this with tar distributed code and I've missed it all 
this time because I typically take downloaded binaries to /opt before 
I 'un-tar' them?

Obviously, I shouldn't plan/trust binaries from untrusted sources - 
and I'm publicly spanking myself for downloading the binary but it 
was interesting to see that 'auto-locating' install.

Craig

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